Cool Concerts: Beautiful Sunday - The Love Jukebox performed by Novo Winds ft. Khim Ng

We are BACK at Beautiful Sunday! And a beautiful Sunday indeed, because it's Mother's Day! It feels almost ages since we stepped into the Esplanade Concert Hall to attend a concert, partially thanks to Covid, and of course the birth of our little one. Now that he's already 4 years old, it means more we-time for ourselves. :D

The concert for the day is themed Love Jukebox and it was performed by Novo Winds. The guest singer was Khim Ng, who was a contestant in the Chinese singing reality show"Sing! China" back in 2017. Together, they performed many popular hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, with notable ones such as:

1. (They Long To Be) Close To You, a cover by The Carpenters

2. 追 by the late Cantonese singer Leslie Cheung 张国荣

3. Reflections by Christina Aguilera

4. 原来你什么都不想要 by A-Mei 张惠妹

4. Hey Jude by The Beatles

They also performed a few other Malay/Indonesian songs. The one hour concert really brought us back to the days when we enjoyed live music performed by these talented musicians, at the beautiful Esplanade Concert Hall. Looking forward to more interesting and exciting performances, since Singapore has opened up and no further restrictions on gathering size or social distancing required. The only requirement is wearing masks indoors, which we believe everyone is totally fine with it.

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Cool Concerts: Beautiful Sunday - Symphonic Broadway

It's another Beautiful Sunday and another concert by the Singapore Wind Symphony Youth Winds. This time they bring us Symphonic Broadway, giving us hits from Broadway like Miss Saigon and Les Miserables. Momo Dear is a fan of Les Miserables and very much wanted to listen to its songs. Therefore we rushed down to Esplanade to catch these talented musicians perform these hits. Other songs from Annie and My Fair Lady were performed too. We were not familiar with these songs but enjoyed the performance nonetheless.

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Cool Concerts: Beautiful Sunday - Dreams of Disney by Mus’Art Youth Wind Orchestra

Dear was looking forward to this for a long time. Being a fan of everything cute, like Disney characters, she wanted to attend this concert by hook or by crook. We went to the Esplanade as early as 2pm to queue up for good seats. Therefore we got the seats we wanted at the Circle 1 area, which offered a much higher view of the stage area. It definitely gave a much better view than those at the foyer area.

This time round, it was a full-house. Even the seats behind the performers were used, as can be seen in this picture. This was the first time we witnessed such an attendance that they actually opened up those seats behind.

Cute Mickey ears on almost every performer.

And once the performers marched in, we could see almost every one of them wearing some cute little Mickey ears to go with the theme.

Dear really enjoyed herself as they played songs from many famous Disney cartoons like The Lion King, Tangled, and of course the most popular animation to date, Frozen. Wonderful performance by these youngsters.

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Cool Concerts: Beautiful Sunday - Symphonic G-on! by AudioImage Wind Ensemble

We finally got to watch a Beautiful Sunday concert. The last time we wanted to watch a Beautiful Sunday concert back in January, we missed the entry time by ten minutes or so. This time round, we reached at 2:20pm, about forty minutes before the concert started. It's a free concert, therefore it's recommended that you reach at least an hour before the concert starts. We were ushered into the Esplanade Theatre around 2:30pm, and proceeded to choose the seats of our liking. It's our umpteenth time watching a concert at the Esplanade Theatre.

Another Beautiful Sunday!

Freaking awesome performances for the day. The songs were based on games from the past to present, such as Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time medley, Sonic the Hedgehog medley, Super Mario Brothers medley, The Planet's Crisis and One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy 7, Pokemon medley and even a medley of current smartphone smash hits like Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies, Clash of Clans, Candy Crush. Truly an awesome experience for a gamer like me who has played almost all of the games that were featured. Really look forward to the next concert featuring games.

Solo performance on an ocarina!

Thank you AudioImage Wind Ensemble.

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