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Front Row

Don’t be afraid of the arts. You too can enjoy it! Don"t believe us? Tune in to Front Row to find out about the best shows and exhibitions that will recharge your brain and restore your spirit, as told by the producers, performers and artists themselves.

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34:40

Heartbreak Hotel

Front Row ·

2018/02/13

"Heartbreak Hotel" is a group exhibition featuring the works of emerging artists, Ibnu Alfadli Othman, Jun Kit, and Mark Tan. Scheduled to coincide with Valentines Day, we find out more about the themes explored in this exhibition with the three artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:37

All-Female “As You Like It”

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2018/02/09

Our producer sneaked into the first local performance of the Handlebards’ all-female cast of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’. He captured some of the moments, as tasters, for you and then spoke the cast right after. The format of the show, four actors playing all the roles (in excess of 24 characters), lends to the inescapable physical humour of being in more than one suit--sometimes two--at any single time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:16

Pulse

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2018/02/08

Dr Sakthi is a medical practitioner and musician who released his debut album, PULSE, in November last year. Pulse, which is described as a "quantum dancehall experience" is the culmination of Dr. Sakthi's 16 years in music. He joins us to discuss his vision in the combined field of music and medicine, and how music can be a tool for therapy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:25

Nick Choo & Friends in Concert: A Fundraiser

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2018/02/07

We find out more about this charity fundraiser concert, which Malaysian-born/ Perth-based composer Nick Choo is putting together in aid of his own brother. Among those performing are Anrie Too, Dominic Lucien Luk, Peter Ong and Tria Aziz, performing songs from Nick's musicals "The Edge", "Follow The Light", "Dreaming Outside The Box" and much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:20

Space-Travel Music

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2018/02/01

First composed in 2010, this evolved work, ‘Space Age: The Phantom Power’, premiered in that same year under the title ‘Space Age: A Journey like Never Before’. Two years later in 2013, with our guest on the theremin, the work was revised and performed with four other Malaysian musicians. Now before they depart to perform in Japan, the composer and producer take us through this latest iteration of this piece which celebrates the romance of space travel.See

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24:46

One Night In Malaya

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2018/01/26

Talking about the ‘Golden Era of Malayan Music’, which is music of the 1940s and 1950s. The singer and composer tell about the legends of the era which celebrated those on the stage like Kamsani and Nona Asiah, and composers like Ahmad Jaafar and Osman Ahmad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:13

The Heroic Farmers Portrayed

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2018/01/25

The Perak-born artist reveals his sense of humor describing his solo exhibition which is dominated by a mud totem, and four photographic works, titled tongue-in-cheek, ‘Lone Ranger’, ‘Dynamic Duo’, ‘Magnificent Three’ and ‘Brilliant Four’. These light-box duratrans prints depict paddy farmers of Perak as superheroes in their fight against giant monsters. The humour belies the seriousness of the issues the artist raises about the plight of these people

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26:02

Impossible Love

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2018/01/24

Two artists--one from Syrian and the other from Afghanistan--without any status recognised in our country tell about the importance of theatre in the lives of people displaced by war and other conflicts. They share how their personal experiences inform their productions in the double bill ‘Impossible Love’. They also express their desire to help Malaysians have a better appreciation of the often invisible minority groups in our midst.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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29:33

Mak Yong in ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’

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2018/01/23

Our guests tell how two magical worlds slip into each other in the creation of ‘Mak Yong Titis Sakti’. In the conversation Norzizi Zulkifli, a theatre instructor at a public university, details which Shakespeare plays allow themselves for a marriage with Mak Yong and which are more difficult or perhaps nigh impossible.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:08

Playing on a Compulsion

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2018/01/19

‘OCD’ is a devised physical theatre piece exploring what it’s like living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What does it do to a person and the people around them? How does one fight these intrusive thoughts? And how does one cope out there? The director herself has Tourette’s Syndrome, anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder and, of course, OCD. She and the cast share not only about creating a performance but also about how devising the production allowed some

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28:32

Singing with Central Queensland Uni

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2018/01/18

The Australian University has brought in 30 students and mixing them with local students at the Bentley Music Academy. Between the two groups they will stage an opera--The Mikado--and excerpts from Broadway musicals. Our guest tell about the collaboration and why such a collaboration is important. They also share on how exposure to music education impacts the young.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:38

Selangor Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chapter 13

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2018/01/16

Our guests tell us about the repertoire of movie-theme music that the Selangor Philharmonic Orchestra will play in its concert, ‘May the Music Be With You’. They point to John Williams’ genius and introduce us to Hans Zimmer and a Welsh composer, Karl Jenkins whose piece accompanied video but not a film or a television series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:03

Dancing in Place 2018

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2018/01/11

From Rimbun Dahan in a new year, new collaborations by teams of Southeast Asian artists. Bilqis Hijjas the convenor and curator of this annual event--together with two dancer-artists--tells about the 10 site-specific dance works. Our guests give us a look at how they as collaborators negotiate differences to mutually create and they share on the issues and attitudes towards dancing in the region.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:24

Portraits of an Artist Going Home

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2018/01/10

Our producer takes a trip to an art gallery to look at eight large portraits of artist, Chong Ai Lei. Her portraits set her in the home she grew up in. Our producer describes some of her works and reveals what they evoke in him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:06

Malaysian Jazz Piano Festival 2018

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2018/01/10

The festival--which is a mix of workshops, demonstrations and performances--enters its fifth year. Our guest tells not only of its offerings but also about the former participants, especially in its competition. The festival which humbly started with a focus on the piano has now opened its door to other jazz instruments. Michael Veerapen reasons why this change in the festival.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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20:53

Dancing Blurred Borders

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2018/01/04

Our producer was at klpac the week before Christmas when he noticed a group of performers of different nationalities. Being nosey, he asked who they were and what they were doing and discovered a gathering that sought to melt the borders among performers and arts practitioners of different disciplines and nationalities. The No Borders Project is in its sixth year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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32:16

CENDANA Opens Funding

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2018/01/03

The government’s Cultural Economy Development Agency (Cendana) set up to build a “vibrant, sustainable and ambitious cultural economy” in the country today announces its call for applicant to its Emerging Artist Incubation Funding Programme. The agency’s founding CEO answers questions to clarify the nut-and-bolts of what all this funding entails and what information is required from successful applicants.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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40:11

Speak Easy 8: Look Back to Look Forward

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2018/01/02

This month on Speak Easy, Elaine Foster invites two poets to do a round-up of the year that was 2017. Azam Rais is a seasoned poet and host of Poet X, an online podcast series of spoken word poetry, while Julian Matthews only discovered spoken word poetry recently. The contrasting experiences of both guests provide a thought-provoking insight into the spoken word scene in Malaysia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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15:54

A Magical Christmas Story: “The Gift of the Magi”

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2017/12/22

A BFM-produced-for-the-holidays storytelling of ‘The Gift of the Magi,” by American writer, O Henry. Performed by: Phraveen Arikiah as Jim; Hana Nadira as Della, and Sabera Shaik as Mrs Sofronie Read by: Lim Soon HengSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:30

Devising with or without a Text

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2017/12/21

David Glass, thinking on the future of theatre, started to work with the ‘next generation’. And since the inception of the ensemble in 1990, has created works which reviewers have described as “inspiring and dynamic” and “masterful.” David shares on how to take non-traditional works and devised them into a performance, using examples from the works that he has staged, like Dickens ‘Bleak House”, “City of Darkness”, “This Changes

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