21 August 2007 - MPO Birthday Bash...

Happy 10th Birthday to you dear MPO... thanks for giving me hours and hours of listening pleasure..
Had fun listening to the Peer Gynt Suite, Habanera and Peter and the Wolf last nite. And the musicians were dressed in their Reddish Family Fun Day outfits instead of the usual black. I snuck a photo in the Philharmonic Hall coz it was all decked up with balloons.. what a pretty sight. After that, the whole jing-jang-gang had dinner in Little Penang followed by drinks in 7@9. All in all it was a pleasant evening :o)

During dinner.. we were talking about how the MPO has a good reputation in European countries and is regarded as a world class orchestra.. it is one of Malaysia's best kept secrets.. this year being the 10th anniversary.. we were expecting a must-see-all-shows programme ( i.e. many international acts and famous people coming to grace our hall ).. however.. the Petronas Management decided to cut the budget.. and that means the MPO is performing the bulk of this season's programme..

Should we expect the Dewan Philharmonic to subsidise or cravings for watching famous people perform classical music or have they already done their bit and their money should be spent elsewhere ? Hmmm..