Should I go?

Singapore International Piano Festival 2004
1 July IDIL BIRET
plays Bach-Kempff, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Ligeti & Stravinsky

2 July RONALD SMITH
plays Beethoven, Alkan, Chopin & Liszt

3 July GYÖRGY SANDOR
plays Bach, Beethoven, Schumann & Bartok

4 July PAUL BADURA-SKODA
plays Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert & Martin

I wonder if Xel's back by then. Maybe she'll want to go ... hmm ... haven't been to a piano festival for a long long time.

Or perhaps this ...
Gil Shaham Plays Tchaikovsky (SSO Gala Concert)

Lan Shui conductor
Gil Shaham violin

ROSSINI Overture to Semiramide
CHEN GANG/HE ZHAOHAO Butterfly Lovers Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Celebrated young American violin virtuoso Gil Shaham makes his Singapore debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in two best-loved violin concertos. Shaham has been championing the Butterfly Lovers Concerto in the USA for some time and it is the perfect foil for the Romantic effusions of Tchaikovsky’s evergreen Violin Concerto in this East meets West encounter.
Lovers of the violin, don’t miss this treat!

Tickets are so damn expensive ... and seeing how long they have been on sale, the good seats are probably sold out. Oh wait ... SSO and Lan Shui?! Waah ... Maybe not a good idea to go after all. The last time I heard SSO, they suck. Really. heh.

I'd like to see Gill Shaham play though. :( Dunno why nowadays people are so 'cultured'. ha... I missed the last time me and friends went to KLCC to listen to Ashkenazy and London Phil. Now, that concert hall is so much nicer than the durians here, and tickets are much cheaper. And London Phil is good! Unlike SSO. bah.