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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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37:37

Shakespeare Demystified: Macbeth

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2017/04/26

For its 2017 season, KL Shakespeare Players is staging its unique version of the Bard’s Scottish play. The director and performers tell us why this is a problematic play beyond the superstitions surrounding this work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:53

Young Arioso Sinfonia Goes Baroque

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2017/04/25

In the course of a discussion on music by young people and music education for young people, specific attention fell on finding the right teachers and institutions. The present climate is such that parents--for whatever reasons--are pushing their young offspring into this discipline. The demand for music education is higher than it has been, and to meet this need, less that desirable instructors and institutions are raising their heads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:50

Engaging Theatre I

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2017/04/21

The first episode in a series about the theatre with these practitioners taking us into the world behind this space and helping reveal what informs, what influences, what shapes this thing--the space and the performance--we call the theatre. In this show, they shape the conversation around Peter Brook’s seminal work, ‘The Empty Space’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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10:10

The Selangor Philharmonic’s Double Double Concert

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2017/04/20

The community orchestra shows-off its youth arm in its second concert. The artistic director-and-conductor, Chan Ling Chee, explains how the orchestra helps young musicians to improve beyond giving them the platform to perform and to learn from their peers. We also hear from Lim Khai Xian, Cellist, Kylie Tan and Kyvie Tan, Violists share their world of music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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25:55

Playing Jade

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2017/04/20

The director talks about this upcoming production of ‘Jade’, an original play by Alex Broun, which deals with the “psychological damage, and wider implications a crime can inflict on an individual when a minor is involved.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:33

Tongue Tied Two

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2017/04/19

Tongue Tied Two is the long awaited sequel to the spoken word cabaret show which premiered at Urbanscapes in 2013. Featuring six poets, two musicians and one improv movement dancer, this redux retells the stories of the monsters from our childhood fairy tales in ways you never dreamed could be true.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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35:40

Strictly Contemporary Dancing #I

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2017/04/14

Suhaili introduces the novice to the contemporary dance scene in the country. In this first show, she gives a history and introduces the early dancers who embraced contemporary dance. She also points to the emerging choreographers who are marrying more local elements to contemporary dance springing from our soil. She moves fluidly to explain the changing form from ballet to modern dance to contemporary.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:21

Bird's Eye View of New Zealand

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2017/04/13

The 'Aspiring New Zealand' photo exhibition showcases New Zealand’s spectacular winter landscapes that are rarely seen by the public taken from the sky. These works, have recently been awarded the International Photography Award 2016 for the category of Fine Art, Landscapes and Aerial Shoot. We talk to the Malaysian Photographer Jeffry Lim behind the series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:56

Thunderstorm

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2017/04/12

The Malaysian staging, in English, of a rather famous Chinese tale which has been made into films in Cantonese and Mandarin. Hear the producer and director tell what other adaptations are being made for a Malaysian audience that already knows the tale of deceit and destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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26:20

A Feminist Staging of ‘Betrayal’

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2017/04/11

Our guests tell about their serendipitous discovery of gender-specific issues in this Pinter play. They tell how this Malaysian adaptation “would not only look on the concept of infidelity localized to a Malaysian setting but taking on a feminism angle.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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33:27

Music Through Time - Medieval Music

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2017/04/07

The first in our series on ‘classical’ music over time. We kick off by looking back at music of the Middle Ages, the period of Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood and Kublai Khan. This is the period that brought in music notation and the first moves toward polyphonic music. Hear possible explanations for this evolution. Our guest posits the influences of Medieval music in contemporary music.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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31:49

Physiovocality in Performance

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2017/04/06

The theatre maker introduces us to the subject of “voice and movement integration.” He shares how this approach to creation is manifested in works performed by his company in productions like ‘Dr Faustus’ and ‘Savages’. Be introduced to approaches like the ‘Laban Movement System’ and the ‘Suzuki Actor Training Method’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:40

Have You Ever…?

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2017/04/05

Artist Wong Chee Meng’s latest series of work began with a question, “Have you ever wondered...?” He joins us to speak about how his vibrant paintings, laden with unusual metaphors, get the audience to re-examine perceptions and consider different points of view by stepping out of their comfort zone. He tells how an accident which compromised his eyesight launched him to become a visual artist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:29

From Mali to Us

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2017/04/04

The bassist,based in Denmark, began his musical journey from Mali, and even though he left the country to seek his music fortune outside of Africa, the land of his birth continues to feed his creative soul. Moussa Diallo, who also writes and tells stories has recordings made especially for children. He tells how his various interests all dovetail.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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27:48

Manah - Exhibiting the Indigenous

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2017/03/31

Art that shows the indigenous perspectives and functions as a caution against the rape of the land by oil palm growers, developers, miners, timber merchants and those who do not see the sacred in the land where their beds are not. Because of local indigenous art’s limited presence within the visual language of the more dominant cultures, it is not only misunderstood but misrepresented. The curators represent to clarify and help understand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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32:06

Third Time Tour Blue

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2017/03/30

The musician-poet-artist is here for the third time, and there’s more urgency in his voice, in his music and in his engagement. He was last here in August 2016 before the new US President’s edicts to bar Muslims from several African and Middle-Eastern countries. Baraka Blue writes: “In a forest, each tree appears a unique entity, separate from all others. Yet, below the surface, their roots are intimately interwoven, and more importantly, they are all woven into—and out

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30:24

From Uganda to Us

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2017/03/29

This lady sings a blend of Jazz, Soul, Neo Soul, rhythm-and-blues and blues. She shares her journey from Africa to Malaysia and the evolution of her sound born of warm humid climes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:18

'White Knight' in a Dress, an art exhibition

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2017/03/28

The young artist, who has all the trappings of religious orthodoxy and traditionalism, explains her realistic oil-on-canvas paintings of young women--with arms, necks and feet exposed--in soft flowing, translucent night clothes. She tells about the tension between how she herself appears and the images she depicts and why realism fascinates her and best captures her intent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:07

Querying Memories in Prints

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2017/03/24

The young artist holds a debut solo exhibition of more than 80 prints created between 2013 and 2017. He tells of his serendipitous journey which started with chanced opportunities and an inquisitive and exploring mind. His present concerns and inquiry are into memories--how the mind surveys, keeps, selects, rejects, fades out, rearranges in order to create. Memories are constructed, fluid and indefinite rather factual and fixed.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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29:36

Storytelling for the Business World

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2017/03/23

The theater practitioner shares his journey from the stage into corporate spaces to facilitate training in as diverse areas as human resource to branding and marketing. He tells about the value of storytelling not only to engender products in the form of student-essays and marketing collaterals but also to individuals as they look at their lives.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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