Klik GAMBAR Dibawah Untuk Lebih Info

Sumber Asal Berita :-

The Star Online: Entertainment: Music

---

Nicola Benedetti: The vehement violinist Posted: 12 Feb 2013 01:00 AM PST British classical musician Nicola Benedetti is the pretty prodigy with a pedagogical cause. She stands at 1.78m. As fit as the fiddle she plays, Nicola Benedetti could have walked the runway but today, she stands tall on the classical platform as a masterclass virtuoso. The 25-year-old lass recently added another string on her bow with an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from the 2013 Queen's New Year Honours for her services to classical music. "It was a real surprise and I do hope that it can help to draw attention to the importance of classical music and arts," said Benedetti who came to fame when she was 16 by winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year award. She was speaking over the phone from Singapore recently after a concert there. Having learned from the legendary Yehudi Menuhin at his school (in Surrey, England), Benedetti today sees to give back the passion she shares towards music education. As a board member of Sistema Scotland, a charity that helps form a children orchestra; Benedetti still finds time to talk to young people and invite them to her show. This March, together with Glasgow UNESCO City of Music; the Scottish talent will hold a weekend of workshop and concerts for 40 of the nation's finest young string players called the Benedetti Sessions. "Anyone playing music can appreciate its formative power, and can recognise the endless list of life-building skills encouraged by the experience of daily dedication to an instrument, and of a community learning to work harmoniously through playing in a group," she added of the upcoming Benedetti Sessions which will have the young participants practice and perform Bartok's Divertimento, one of string orchestra's most challenging pieces. Benedetti put a lot of emphasis on music education for young people based on her own experience and the lessons she learned when she was younger. "The discipline came from my mum. She was very strict with me and my sister helping us to practise and to understand that the only way to be good at something it to work at it everyday. "Music taught me the skills of being patient and disciplined and these are two valuable lessons that young people could learn through playing an instrument." With her treadmill performances lining up, Benedetti still practises at least three hours a day despite the jetlag she faces from globe-trotting. "Ideally, I practise five hours a day. There are times when you just have to sacrifice your daily routine because the travel schedule is so intense. "But it is important to make sure when you arrive that you get an hour of something done. And just keep your fingers moving." Having being thrown into the circuit of stardom when Benedetti was just a mere 17-year-old, she took an adagio after realised her standards were slipping and focused on working to improve her skills to octaves higher. In her Singapore stop, she collaborated with Estonian conductor, Neeme Jarvi bowing Korngold's concerto from her sixth album, The Silver Violin. From Baroque-ing on a Baroque bow to fiddling Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Benedetti has impressed traditionalists and is being welcomed by reformers for her wide range of attempts on various repertoires. In The Silver Violin, she brings in 20th century romatic film music from Shostakovich, Mahler and more evidently, Schindler's List. As for her next string adventure, Benedetti hints that she will most likely embrace chamber music. "I will be looking to work closely with people experienced in chamber music, focusing on Russian repertoires." And similar to other violin maestros, Benedetti plays on a 1717 Stradivarius on loan to her by her modern-Medici patron, banker Jonathan Moulds. With her next stop in Hong Kong that week, Benedetti said that she enjoyed working with the different conductors and orchestras. "I feel my path is moving exactly where I want it to and that's the first time I've felt like that." Nicola Benedetti's The Silver Violin is released by Universal Music Malaysia

Beyonce wants slumber parties, normal childhood for baby Blue Ivy Posted: 11 Feb 2013 06:19 PM PST LOS ANGELES: Singer Beyonce says she wants to give her baby daughter a normal childhood with "sprinklers and ... slumber parties." In a Vogue magazine interview released on Monday she also teased her next, as yet untitled, album saying the music is "a lot more sensual ... empowering" thanks to motherhood. The Grammy-winning singer, 31, who is married to rapper Jay-Z, took a year off her music career to care for her first child, Blue Ivy Carter, who was born in January 2012. "At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do ... School visits and lemonade stands and all that stuff. It's very important for me," she told Vogue in an interview for its March issue. The singer, who is making a comeback with a world tour starting in April, talked about bringing her daughter to work, saying, "She's my road dog. She's my homey, my best friend." The Vogue interview was conducted in late 2012 before Beyonce's controversial lip-synced performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at President Barack Obama's inauguration in January. Two weeks later she silenced her critics with a live performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. On Saturday, her HBO documentary "Life is But A Dream" gets a first airing, giving viewers a glimpse of her life outside the spotlight. An interview with Oprah Winfrey on the OWN cable channel airs the same day. Beyonce called media gossip last year that she had faked her pregnancy "very odd" and spoke in detail about giving birth for the first time. "I felt like when I was having contractions. I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain...We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication," she told Vogue. -Reuters

You are subscribed to email updates from The Star Online: Entertainment: Music To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my