MUSIC
 Sam
the Man - now at the Mount Lavinia Hotel
Commencing tomorrow (August 3), Sam the Man will take centre stage at
the Terrace of the Mount Lavinia Hotel with his special brand of music.
His four hour package of music will contain the evergreen hits of 60s,
70s and 80s and whats more he will bring the music right up to your
table, to help you sing along your favourite oldies of your era.
His repertoire of perennial favourites includes hits by well-known
singers such as Bing Crosby, Jim Reeves, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong,
Elvis Presley, Cliff Richards and many more.
His added attraction is that he is versatile in singing in German,
French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Greek, Japanese and Hindi.
This is an advantage for him because he is able to strike an instant
rapport with his cosmopolitan fans.
What's more the Sinhala hits of Sunil Shantha, C.T. Fernando and
Clarence Wijewardena are added lights in his repertoire. In all his
performances, Sam the Man is backed by keyboardist Thushan and guitarist
Kasun who sing the contemporary contemporary hits.
Sam the Man is featured on Saturdays at the Blue Water in Wadduwa and
on Sundays at the Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo.
SLOS concert of movie tunes
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Dushyanthi Perera |
Do you want to re-live the thrill of experiencing Darth Vader
stalking down the halls of the Death Star while the Imperial March rings
in your ears or the excitement of imagining Superman launch into the
void fist extended? On the other hand you cannot forget Eliza
Doolittle’s struggle with vowels in My Fair Lady, or feel the hair rise
on the back of your neck when you hear a prayer for deliverance from
Prince of Egypt. What about the heart-rending, theme from Schindler’s
List? Does it still make you cry?
If you said yes to any or all of the above, you would probably not
want to miss the concert by the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka (SOSL)
of popular music from the movies at the Bishop’s College Auditorium on
August 8 and 9.
The orchestra will be joined by the Methodist College choir in
medleys from popular classics like Les Miserables, Grease, Broadway hits
of Rogers and Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Soprano singer Dmitri Gunatilake will join the orchestra to sing
excerpts from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and Les Mis. The Symphony
Orchestra of Sri Lanka will be directed by the cellist-conductor
Dushyanthi Perera. |
