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Date: 23 Jan 2008 (Wed)
Time: 7.30pm (recording starts)
Venue: MediaCorp Studios @ Andrew Road

Those interested can get FREE tickets by sending us your name and mobile number before 12noon tomorrow (23rd Jan 2008).

Please note that collection will be at 6.30pm. The person-in-charge will contact you regarding further meeting details.

*Update [25/02]: Videos are up thanks to moonlight!

SCO welcomes you to the new season with melodies of spring! Award-winning female percussionist Song Yi Bo’s performance of well-loved percussion number A Well-Match Fight will bring this exuberant concert to a rousing start. The festive concert is not complete without music celebrating the marvels of Spring – Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Johann Strauss’s Voices of Spring, Li Huan Zhi’s Spring Festival Overture and Lo Leung Fai’s Spring.

For the first time, SCO collaborates with the multi-talented radio DJs from SCO’s official radio station, Capital Radio 958FM. These radio personalities are ready to entertain with their songs, raps and talks. And do not miss local songbird Kit Chan with an excerpt from musical Snow Wolf Lake and NDP theme song 2007 - There’s No Place I’d Rather Be.

DATE
25-26 Jan 2008 Fri - Sat, 8PM

DURATION
Approx 2 Hrs

Interval
Approx 15 Mins

VENUE
SCO Concert Hall

TICKET PRICE (Exclude Booking Fee)
Standard - S$88, S$68, S$48, S$38, S$28, S$18
Please add to above price $2 Booking Fee for tickets above $20 and $1 Booking Fee for tickets $20 and below. Charges include GST where applicable.

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By Boon Chan

ST PHOTO: ALAN LIM

SINGER Kit Chan is looking corporate in a pleated knee-length black dress, a black leather watch and black heels.

But this is not a new role in a musical or her latest image as an entertainer. Meet Kit Chan the public relations consultant.

Speaking to Life! at the National Museum’s Novus Cafe, the 34-year-old says that she has been ‘re-integrating into society’ since leaving the pop music scene three years ago.

She adds that while she loves performing, ‘I don’t like the lifestyle of an artiste, I don’t like the fact that I’m segregated’.

So she has been exploring her options for a second career, though she admits it was ‘not your typical look-at-Classifieds job hunt’.

She is starting work today as a campaign specialist for Hill & Knowlton, one of the world’s five largest public relations firms.

Her job involves coming up with campaigns and messages for the public sector and for corporations.

‘At first, I thought I knew nothing about PR, but I found I could draw analogies to entertainment,’ she says. ‘You are communicating stories and messages through your work, which is what I do as an entertainer.’

While her Singaporean banker boyfriend is ‘a bit worried’ about her career move, he is also supportive and has bought her a bag for work.

She hasn’t said goodbye to showbiz though. She says that she ‘has an understanding’ with her boss Jimmy Tay, the firm’s chief executive for South-east Asia, about acting or singing engagements.

She adds that he is supportive of significant projects which would help promote Singapore, such as singing for the National Day Parade.

Clearly, she is excited to be embarking on this new phase of her life.

‘The idealistic part of me wants to influence people in a good way and you can do this in PR, for example, by educating the public on policy changes.’

She is also quickly learning what her new job entails.

She contemplated ’secretly going to work for six months’ before saying anything to the media, but Mr Tay told her she has to change her mindset.

‘He said to me, ‘As Kit Chan the artiste, you are used to the press running after you for a story, but as a PR professional, you chase the media and give them the story and manage the story’.’

source: The Straits Times Life 

独家：陈洁仪畅谈国庆演唱感受
9 August 2007
董素华

新传媒新闻报道，完成演唱国庆庆典主题曲的重任后，本地歌手陈洁仪接受新传媒记者董素华的访问，同观众分享她的感受。

本地歌手陈洁仪1998年第一次在国家体育场演唱了第一首国庆主题曲《家》。阔别十年，陈洁仪再唱国庆主题曲《我只愿留在此地》，时隔10年，感受有什么不同？。她曾经离乡背井，最终选择回到新加坡。国庆庆典怎样加强归属感？陈洁仪是否会考虑复出？

想了解详细内容，请点击观看独家访谈视

source: http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=7997 (click on video icon to view)
Thanks to eudora for the link

MobTV will be putting up the repeat broadcast of the National Day Parade at Marina Bay 2007 up for FREE viewing for the period of 10-31st August. Click here to sign up and watch.

Overseas fans will be able to catch the live streaming of the NDP Parade celebrations at Marina Bay. There will be multiple camera angles straight from the parade. Kit will be performing an extended version of the song “There’s No Place I’d Rather Be”.

Date: 9 August 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 6pm (Kit appears at around 7.30pm)
Where: http://ndp.mediacorp.com.sg/

国庆歌曲谁来唱？

黄靖晶(2007-07-25)

陈洁仪今年获选演唱国庆主题歌。

本地歌手陈洁仪今年获选演唱国庆主题歌。这是她十年来再度唱国庆歌曲。

回顾过去几年的歌手人选，就陈洁仪和孙燕姿先后唱过两次国庆主题歌，其他歌手包括陶菲克、芮恩、林俊杰、蔡健雅和许美静等。

这些歌手中，尽管有的已经举行过不少演唱会，有的经历过比赛，算是身经百战，但一旦站在国庆舞台上，仍可以感受到非一般演出的激昂心情与爱国情怀。

究竟这些歌手当时演唱国庆主题歌的心情是怎样的？他们心目中还有哪些适合演唱国庆歌的人选？

很高亢、激动，很棒！
陈洁仪
2007年：唱《我只愿留在此地》（There’s No Place I’d Rather Be）
2004年：跟林俊杰合唱《家》
1998年：唱《家》

陈洁仪在1998年国庆庆典上演唱《家》。

陈洁仪今年将演唱由本地音乐人叶良俊创作的英语主题歌曲《我只愿留在此地》。除了2004年跟林俊杰合唱《家》，这算是她第二次独唱国庆歌曲，第一次是1998年时唱《家》，那也是第一首国庆歌。

唱国庆歌的心情，陈洁仪说：“很高亢、激动，因为站在台上，可以感觉对国家的归属感与使命感，很棒！”

心目中人选：阿杜、蔡淳佳

陈洁仪说，阿杜、蔡淳佳在歌坛有一段时间，两人已证明自己是唱将，或许是每年有不同的筹委，作不同的选择标准，因此迟迟没有轮到他们。

2006年的国庆歌由龚诗嘉演唱，因她太新而引起争议，陈洁仪不以为然，“国庆典礼固然需要适当的歌手带动气氛，但也是推广本地新人的大好机会。”

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