MPO

malaysian philharmonic orchestra, i went to watch them yesterday courtesy of one of my sisters. traffic there was light and parking was easy (v expensive though). perhaps most people have enough of the traffic jams during weekdays, so they avoid KLCC during the weekends, making it totally jam free and jam up places like 1U and Ikano instead.

walking up to the lobby, it was indeed spacious, but there were lots of attendant to help you out. 1st thing i did was to check out if i over or under dress. i only wore a long sleeve shirt and docker. looks like i was save, a short sleeve shirt would do.

a quick round of intro whit my sister's friends and we were ushered away. what a pleasant surprise! our sittings were not the normal sitting but we had a corporate hospitality suite. there were quite a number and each one had an attendant standing by to assist. when we reached ours, we were shown our sitting... che wah, like in the movies pulak (balcony sitting), then back to the room. sitting for 8, with a tv set, in case you don't want to be out there.

we were told when the performance starts the doors to balcony would be locked and there's no way to get back in. so the ladies made their was to the wc first.

the acoustic for the hall was excellent, just before the performance starts, there was a moment of silent while waiting for the conductor to come out, it was so quite it was deafening. i've only experience such 'quietness' in voice recording booth but they are normally 12' by 8' or slightly bigger.

being the first time, we (maybe it's just me) clapped when only when other audience clapped. kampung a bit mah, if clap at wrong time, malu-lah.

after 2 performances, intermission for 15 mins and then the rest of the show. all in all the show was only about 1 hour + but it was quite an experience. maybe when they play pieces from my favourite composers i'll go watch again.

we got to find out quite a lot about MPO,
you'll get to watch a performance from only rm 10 pengsan, better than watching a b grade movie. ......most expensive tickets are at rm 500. was told in overseas, at least 70 Euros, some more probably must wear jacket.
all the musicians are foreign nationals (i might get this wrong coz now malaysia boleh already wat).

the hall was squeeze in, an after thought, that's why it's relatively small.

the ceiling is retractable moved higher when there is a session with pipe organ

largest pipe organ in south east asia.

ok already, ppl will think that i'm promoting it.