Somtow (@somtow) - Honouree

Somtow

Bangkok

Author of "Vampire Junction," "Mallworld," "Jasmine Nights" — composer of operas — conductor of the Siam Philharmonic and Siam Sinfonietta

over 6 years ago

Somtow does "Psycho" Yes, I managed to get "Pyscho" into my Valentine's Day concert ... you see, it was about "all the varieties of Love" … and I had a "perverte

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over 6 years ago

Somtow does "Vertigo" This is also from our Valentine's Day concert.

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over 6 years ago

Somtow and Bow do "Titanic" On the 14th we had a Valentine's Day concert — romantic music from 100 years of Hollywood.

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almost 7 years ago

The Sinfonietta goes to the Movies We started work yesterday on a Valentine concert of classic movie love themes. Most of the great romantic classics of course were long befo

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almost 7 years ago

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugnaught Thoughts While Binge-Watching “The Mandalorian” - S.P. Somtow I was finally able to watch The Mandalorian rece

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almost 7 years ago

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Complete Video: the World Premiere of my Holocaust Opera Here's a link to the Financial Times story about my opera … and here is th

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almost 7 years ago

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My New Opera about the Holocaust, Opening Tonight This is what I wrote in the program book … SIX MILLION AND ONE Helena Citrónová is an opera. That is to say, it is a performance in which

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almost 7 years ago

Thinking about Carrie Fisher I was thinking about how Princess Leia managed to appear in the final movie — reconstituted from unused pieces of celluloid. So I thought I

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almost 7 years ago

Forty Two Years with the Force - a Kind of Star Wars review This essay will not be spoiler-free. A long time ago … and the galaxy might as well be far, far, away because I’m not a quantum particle an

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almost 7 years ago

classical-radio

Our kids play the 1812 Overture A few glitches here and there but hey, it's live music. And the first concert of the Sinfonietta's Tenth Seaso

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almost 7 years ago

classical-music

Beethoven's Birthday Big Bang Flashmob in Thailand Four youth orchestras from Thailand and five conductors celebrated Beethoven's birthday and the launch of a year-long Beethoven celebration

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almost 7 years ago

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Preparing to Avoid Clichés.... Today I took a rehearsal of the 1812 Overture for the first time in my life. (Thank god I found a score of the non-Soviet edition just in ti

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almost 7 years ago

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Siam Sinfonietta winds play Stravinsky found this clip which is about 3 years old. It's the Stravinsky "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" - early versi

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almost 7 years ago

classical-music

Video of Helena Citrónová Suite by Somtow In response to the generous response to my article about the music for my upcoming opera, I'm posting the video

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about 7 years ago

classical-music

My Approach to Musical Language in “Helena Citrónová” This opera began years ago with an overture: a clanging, elemental, shrieking, painful overture that’s not so m

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