Piano Music With A Touch of Humour |
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The dinner show, co-sponsored by Hilton Kuching, was also in aid of the Sarawak Children’s Cancer Society. Our society successfully raised a donation of RM5,000.00 towards the causes of the SCCS. At 7.30pm, the evening began with Rose Au, the hostess of the show, inviting guests to their meal. When everyone had finished enjoying their main course, David started the first half of the show with his entertaining blend of music, mimicry and comedy including music of his own composition. With his music and comedy story-telling, the audience quickly warmed up to him and would break into sudden fits of uncontrollable laughter. After desert and coffee was served, the second half of the show continued with more laughter as well as some serious music playing of his own composition. During the evening, a teenage boy amongst the audience was severely tickled by David’s joke involving the swagman in ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and his contagious and hearty laughter resonated throughout the whole dinner hall for a good whole minute before David could continue. In an interview with Sharon Ling of Sarawak Tribune, he revealed that he has an underlying purpose to evoke laughter with music: “I suppose if there’s an aim to it, it’s to show the general public that there’s nothing to be scared about classical music. By not taking it completely seriously I widen the audience of classical music, so that people who would not normally go to a classical piano recital will come to one of my concerts because they know they’re going to hear good music and they know they’re also going to get a good laugh. “It’s like the missionaries going into the jungle; I’m making converts to classical music,’ he says. Elaborating further, he concedes that classical music is serious and should be taken seriously, “but I don’t want the myth, this mask of gravity, saying, ‘Oh, it’s got to be very, very solemn’. And so I make fun of it.” And true to his cause, the dinner show was well attended by many who would not usually have turned up for a classical music recital. It was a memorable evening which many would say was a first of its kind in Kuching and many look forward to his return
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On
18th October 2002 at the Grand Ballroom Kuching Hilton, David
Scheel thrilled Kuching audience
with his famous musical comedy solo show called “Don’t Shoot Me, I’m
Only The Piano Player”. It was an evening of great Western cuisine
specially prepared by Hilton Kuching topped up with non-stop extraordinary
fun and laughter.
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concert
past
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