Tonight we were invited to attend the East Plays West concert at Fort Canning Park. Basically it was the Chinese orchestra playing Western songs on Chinese instruments.

It was such a fantastic performance. They played Strike Up the Band, Horse and Buggy, and West Side Story to name a few but my favorite was Schindler's List which included a solo by Li Bao Shun who played the Erhu which is similar to a violin but only has 2 strings.

This meant that to perform the solo he needed to use 3 different Erhu's (high, middle and low range notes). He managed to switch between these three instruments seamlessly while keeping us all entranced with the music. I hope this video can capture a small part of the magic.