An inspiring event that took place today

Hello! Today i am going to talk about an experience which has motivated and inspired me to improve. My friend from my church goes to Tanjong Katong secondary school and has joined its concert band. From what I've heard, their band has a reputation of being one of the best bands in Singapore. They have won the Gold Award in the previous Singapore Youth Festival and the Sliver Award in the Singapore International Band Festival as well. Their concert 2011 is the first to be held in January and they aim to start off the year with a big bang.

 The Tanjong Katong Secondary School Band, more affectionately known as TK Band is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, thus i decided to both support my friend as see for myself the standard of the band and if all the praises given to this band were true. The concert was to be held at the Singapore Conference Hall at 7.30 and i arrived promptly at 7 with some friends to get good seats.

 I sat down at one of the best seats hoping to get a clear view and awesome music. And i was not disappointed at all, they played many wonderful songs with such energy and precision that the band i was in paled in comparison to them. The songs that played are a follows:

1.NAMASTE!

2.WITH HEART AND VOICE

3.PUSZTA

4.OCTOBER

5.VESUVIUS

6.OVERTURE NO.1

7.DISCO LIVES

8.ANCHORED LOVE

9.THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT

  (From "The Phantom of the Opera")

10.TEGAMI

11.MUSIC OF THE BEAT

With so the pressurizing and stressful arrival of the Singapore Youth Festival coming up soon, i was shocked that they still managed to find time to practise and organise such a exclusive concert in the Singapore Conference Hall in addition to the preparation of the Youth Festival. Their uniforms are extremely smart and made them look very professional. Their instruments seemed quite new to me as compared to my band. They followed the conductor perfectly only with occasion slight blunders. I could see they were very well disciplined and they could even dance and move to the music!

 Seeing how much better were their saxophonists as compared to me made me feel quite ashamed, yet fueled me with a burning desire to improve. Their stands had beautiful cloths with their band's logo imprinted onto it, while our band only had naked stands. But to think of it, who am i to judge my own band. Before the intermission, only the Secondary 3's and Secondary 4's played, after the intermission the Secondary 2's came in and played two wonderful songs before departing the stage. Although it was only two songs, however they played it flawlessly and beautifully and they emerged again to sing along during the second last song TEGAMI.

 After the performance, i knew what had to do, and that was to improve! I started reflecting and doing some thinking on my way back home, I thought, this band has really lived up to its expectations! It really was as fantastic as it had been said to be for a secondary school standard. It has really inspired and motivation me to come down to the band room every single day without fail to practise hard so as to improve my skills to perfection.

 However, i can't be a one man band can i? I can only hope that my resolve would spread to others and that the whole band too would practise hard so that we would be the equivalent to the TK Band. I hope that the Victoria Secondary School Band and the Tanjong Katong Band would both pursue their passion for music-making, and scale to greater heights.