The Imperial Ice Stars: Cinderella on Ice

**LOAN PROMOTION**

BORROW 8 ITEMS AND STAND A CHANCE TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO ~THE IMPERIAL ICE STARS~
CINDERELLA ON ICE!

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• Promotion ends 31 Jul 2009.

• Tickets issued are not exchangeable

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SSO Pre-Concert Talk: Jul 09

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Extravaganza Stephen Hough: “No. 2”
Fri, 3 Jul 09
6.30pm – 7.00pm
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Postcards from Spain
Fri, 31 Jul 09
6.30pm – 7.00pm
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Speaker: Mona Lim, music consultant, educator and composer

This July, embark on an exhilarating journey with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Pre-Concert Talks as we bring you two exciting Fridays of musical discoveries. Join Ms Mona Lim as she brings music to life with captivating tales of distinguished composers and their selected works.

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SSO Pre-Concert Talks

Want to know interesting facts about the music and composers to be performed by the Singapore

What is the relationship between classical music and mathematics?

Ed: The journal articles cited below are mostly pulled from the eDatabase, JSTOR. You can access this database for FREE, if you are a NLB Digital Library Member. Registration is FREE. For details, please visit http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/.

To the answer proper then.

To say the least, this is a complex question on which debates and discussions continue to wage today. Based on what I’ve read about this topic, I think one can conclude that while music and mathematics share similarities and may be tightly-related, there is no proven, direct link between the two subjects.

To begin, let’s look at how

WIN Exclusive Tickets to the Singapore Arts Festival 2009!

For every 4 items borrowed from library@esplanade, stand a chance to win tickets to Singapore Arts Festival 2009!

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SSO Pre-Concert Talk: King and Emperor

Fri, 24 Apr 09
6.30pm – 7.00pm
King and Emperor
Dr Rebecca Kan, Senior Lecturer (Music), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
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Thanks to its bold melodies and heroic spirit, Beethoven’s fifth and last piano concerto “Emperor” remains one of his most popular compositions. What is it about this work that makes it legendary? Join Dr Rebecca Kan as she brings new insights into one of the great concertos in the repertory.

Why is the direction of ballroom dancing always in the anti-clockwise?

In ballroom dancing parlance, this movement in the anti-clockwise direction is usually known as “line of dance”, “line of direction”, or “ballroom direction”.

According to Don Herbison-Evans*,

the origins of the convention of progressing anti-clockwise around the ballroom dancefloor are obscure. It was clearly already evident in the the early 19th Century, when the Viennese Waltz became popular. Paradoxically this was achieved by only dancing ‘natural turns’, in which the couple turns clockwise. Not until the 20th Century did the ‘reverse turn’ become equally popular. Progressing anticlockwise while dancing the anticlockwise ‘reverse turns’ requires considerable skill and practice,

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