+ Updated with video of the full concert performance (Thanks Taengoo).
In the light of the sudden distressing news to hit the Soshi fandom, here’s a little tidbit I just discovered that might cheer us all up a bit ;).
I saw this on the Soshi Weekly News Wrap on Soshified that I thought deserved a wider public distribution for the musical talent that was displayed by the performers.
At a recent Festival Of Arts performance by Anglo-Chinese School (Independent), a secondary school in Singapore, a medley of K-Pop hits was performed by their school orchestra band.
Songs by IU, BEG, 2AM and, of course, our favourite 9 ladies, SNSD, were performed in front of a highly appreciative audience. Excerpts from “Oh”, “Gee”, “Genie” and “Run Devil Run” were played during the performance.
I must say that it is good to see the Hallyu wave hit the local Singaporean school music scene too. Enjoy the video !!!
Full Concert Performance Video
sources: hunyboy56@youtube.com, gayqueenful@soshified.com, streptococcusbasilli@youtube.com
Darkshadow said:
lol nice i wish my old school would’ve allowed us to do something like this
.::RP::. said:
That medley was amazing~
I’m sure the girls and the other groups that were covered would be touched if they heard this :O
ddb5120 said:
omg i love it!!!!!!!
Soul said:
Hallyu wave surely hit Singapore, Isn’t that right Kenneth. 😉
Viane said:
OMG SO GOOOOD!! Loved the genie arrangement, sounded so good it could have been a film soundtrack. Next favorite is Lupin by Kara and then Run, devil, run had me think “pink panther”
Apple said:
OMG that is sooooo cooool! I love it!
angskk said:
daebak.. hallyu is spreading everywhere even in SG orchestra bands!! xD
Joelle said:
Ohh, I remember this performance. I was so surprised when I heard they were performing it for the FOA lol. According to my friends though the choreography was a nightmare to learn and do. coughgeecrabdancecough 😛 4 songs from Soshi and everyone cheered when they came out haha..
Hallyu has really made its way into Singapore, yay! 😀
nukem384 said:
Wow the Hallyu wave has definitely hit your homeland Kenneth! Really cool clip of the band rocking out!
chinesebutterfly said:
damn! that’s awesome!
Steve (@SONEzero) said:
Some of those, especially Genie, sounded amazing when played by an orchestra. I hope to see more of this in the future.
Ipodman said:
I must be very bad. I can’t even recognise any of the songs -.-
Danice said:
its so great..awesome!!!
kpopjjang247 said:
i think majority of the members are sones..XD look how many songs frm SNSD they performed.. and this is the 1st time im impressed…XD
Taengoo said:
actually only a few members of the band are Sones, including myself. the student conductor is a Sone so he arranged the piece for the entire band to play 🙂
TANU said:
THIS IS AWESOME!!
miauw said:
IT WAS REALLY COOL AND DEFINITELY MADE MY NIGHT!! so proud to have such-kpop enthusiast Symphonic Band in school 😀
Taengoo said:
Member of the band (and Sone) here~
this is not the full song by the way. the recording started late, there are more songs in front which are:
1) I Don’t Know by APink
2) Bonamana by Super Junior
3) Ring Ding Dong by Shinee
then it’s Sorry Sorry and so on 🙂
Acknowledgements:
Arranger of piece: Joel Lee
Conductor: Mr Francis Tan
Video by: Mattheus Lee
We also have the full video but we are trying to cut it and upload because it’s size is gigantic 😛
Thanks for the support and encouragement 😀
TANU said:
Upload it soon! I’ll wait for it. thx ya. 😀
Taengoo said:
uhh we were told not to disclose to public because of copyright issues with the songs >< the one who uploaded the video was not a member of the band so it's his problem
T.I.T.A.B said:
Awesome.
jda95 said:
That Genie arrangement literally sent chills down my spine!
And out of curiosity, what was the song between Gee and Genie?
Taengoo said:
Brown Eyed Girl’s Abracadabra 🙂
worldwideweb said:
Amazing!! Simply amazing!!
Now, if only I can do something like that in my school….
The Hallyu Wave is ownage in SG 🙂
Happyguy said:
wonderful!!!!
A big hand of appluads…..!!!
gabe2x said:
Awesome ! this will get them to KR 🙂
gabe2x said:
gave me the musical chills they did!
Daniel said:
wow really amazing! genie sounded amazing!
John Linderos said:
this cover is awesome , btw i don’t know if you done it before but i think you should give http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhIEJ5rZek a shoutout because i think they have done awesome TaeNy songs which deserves alot more views than they have 🙂 ❤
MadToonz said:
Wow that’s awesome!! My school band would never do something like this >.> lols
mikechi said:
Definitely some very talented K-pop fans out there. Loving the fact that K-pop has so heavily influenced many art forms.
Taengoo said:
FULL VERSION IS OUT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhxJXqdFv8I
Audio Version is not as good, but you can see the entire band this time 😀
Rio Harma said:
Awesome .