{"id":35496,"date":"2013-04-01T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/?p=35496"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T08:32:41","slug":"super-junior-tang-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/super-junior-tang-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Junior T’ang Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At every performance of The Importance Of Being Earnest<\/em>, we invite our audiences to step into another world \u2013 a lavish, elegant soiree<\/em> where conversations have been scripted by master wordsmith Oscar Wilde to the tune of Bach, Haydn and Mozart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing the musical accompaniment for the evening are the new kids on the block: The Ensemble Dimension (TED) Players or, as we prefer to call them, Super Junior T\u2019ang Quartet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our 2009 production of Earnest<\/em>, the renowned T\u2019ang Quartet lent their strings to our little celebration of wit and Wilde. Four years down the road, they have handpicked and trained four young, talented musicians \u2013 Seah Huan Yuh (First Violin), Wilford Goh (Second Violin), Martin Peh (Viola) and Lin Juan (Cello) \u2013 to play in their stead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After making it through the auditions, the foursome went through an intensive training \u2018camp\u2019 with the T\u2019ang Quartet, meeting for two-hour sessions three times a week. The process was a memorable one for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recalls Lin Juan: \u201cYou get to work with the best. We got an inside view of how this group works. It\u2019s a very unique process that they\u2019re trying to pass down to us.\u201d He jokes, \u201cWe\u2019re doing well under the circumstances! They\u2019ve played together for twenty-something years; we\u2019ve played together for twenty-something days!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While all four TED players have impressive credentials as solo musicians, Earnest<\/em> marks their collective debut as a foursome \u2013 and it\u2019s also the first time they have each had the opportunity to perform in a theatre rather than a concert or orchestra hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is definitely the first time we are [performing] as such an important feature of the play,\u201d Wilford tells us. \u201cThe actors actually have to interact with us and we have to interact with them. I think, for all of us, that\u2019s definitely a first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the four young musicians, working with W!LD RICE has also broadened their horizons, allowing them to step outside their own little musical community and meet a group of individuals who are performers, like themselves, but in a very different way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe people that we\u2019ve met are a very, very different bunch from our community of musicians,\u201d Wilford points out. \u201cWe learn so much from watching them rehearse and go through the play. It was a very fruitful and enlightening experience for all of us \u2013 it\u2019s great, seeing them onstage as their characters and backstage as themselves. It\u2019s pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huan Yuh concurs that it was an interesting experience \u2013 and an \u201cunnerving\u201d one at times. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit surreal when you gather in the green room with all these legends,\u201d he observes, just as veteran actor Lim Kay Siu (who plays Reverend Chasuble in Earnest<\/em>) wanders into the dressing room to change into his costume. \u201cI used to watch Kay Siu on TV when I was growing up. Now he\u2019s taking off his shirt in front of us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TED Players were also impressed by the familial backstage atmosphere that\u2019s characteristic of a W!LD RICE production. \u201cOther than Kay Siu, they\u2019ve all done this show before,\u201d Lin Juan says, \u201cBut it\u2019s amazing how welcoming they\u2019ve been. We don\u2019t feel out of place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything is so well-planned,\u201d Martin adds, in reference to the amount of attention lavished by the W!LD RICE crew on the cast \u2013 TED Players included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we asked the four young men about the most memorable experience they\u2019ve had so far in working on Earnest<\/em>. With one voice, they concur that it was getting a make-up master class from W!LD RICE Artistic Director Ivan Heng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turns out, Ivan had popped into their dressing room just half an hour before our interview and helped pluck and shape some of the TED Players\u2019 eyebrows. \u201cIt was fun and informative,\u201d Wilford deadpans, \u201cAnd really very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At every performance of The Importance Of Being Earnest, we invite our audiences to step into another world \u2013 a lavish, elegant soiree where conversations have been scripted by master wordsmith Oscar Wilde to the tune of Bach, Haydn and Mozart. Providing the musical accompaniment for the evening are the new kids on the block: The Ensemble Dimension …<\/p>\n

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