双语快讯 | 这场充满魔性笑声的合唱会里到底藏了什么秘密？
德胜学校（国际）
现场视频直击
视频拍摄及制作：陈科翰 毛开哲
With Heart and Voice
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Desheng School (International) Chamber Choir held our concert on 21st March 2021. Titled “With Heart and Voice”, the concert was a milestone in Desheng School (International) as it was our first full-length concert since we started four years ago in 2017 by our choir master and music teacher, Mr. Clarence Tan.
We were also privileged to invite our partners DSI String Orchestra and the award-winning Sound of the Season Choir from our Desheng Primary School, to perform with us, closing in the ties between both outstanding institutions from the Desheng Education Group. These talented musical groups brought with them their unique characters, lending color to “With Heart and Voice”.
Desheng Primary School
“With Heart and Voice” is a C.A.S. project by our IB students in the choir. C.A.S., short for Creative, Activity and Service, is an important and core component of every IB student’s journey in their pursuit for holistic education. The programme allows students to explore the meaning of life through understanding and developing of self, and through service to the community and society.
With Heart and Voice
Our IB seniors worked tirelessly with Mr. Tan on the organising of the concert, from logistics to programming, bringing to our audience a unique programme that is innovative, inclusive and interactive.
One highlight from the concert is a work by Singaporean composer Lu Heng. In his work, instead of using the conventional way of expressing joy and happiness through words and beautiful melodies, he blatantly expressed these feelings in their rawest form; laughter. Lu Heng’s “Laughter Propaganda” was the highlight of the evening.
The rehearsing and performing of “Laughter Propaganda” was not without challenges. We had to ask ourselves: 'How can we laugh at will? How can we move together? How are we going to interact with our friends? Lastly, How will my friends view me after seeing me laughing like this?”
To all our queries and difficulties, Mr. Tan always has one thing to say: “Your friends will definitely laugh. But as friends, they will laugh with you and not at you”. Quoting Ms. Seraphina Chong from her little sharing over Wechat Moments on our performance, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two persons. And for one night, DSI laughed together as a family”.
The concert ended not before our Grade 12 seniors handed over their leadership and duties to the incoming committee. We wish our Grade 12 seniors Finwon Wu, Jason Zhang, Lena Zhang and Erica Yang all the best for their upcoming IB Examinations and thank you for your dedication and for not giving up on us.
From Left to Right: Finwon Wu, Lena Zhang, Jason Zhang
Erica Yang (the left one in the second row)
Finwon Wu and James Lin, the alumni from Class of 2020
We would also like to thank our dedicated alumni Gordon Luo for coming back to sing with us and help rehearse our tenors when Mr. Tan becomes unavailable.
Gordon Luo
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for paving the way so we may continue to scale greater heights to become who can we be.
WIth Heart and Voice
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2021年3月21日，德胜学校（国际）室内合唱团在校内举办了“乐由心声”合唱晚会。本次晚会是由德胜学校（国际）的音乐老师、合唱团指导老师——陈德明老师主持的。本次合唱晚会是德胜（国际）自2017年成立以来第一场正式合唱晚会，是一个重要的里程碑。
本次晚会很荣幸地邀请到了德胜学校（国际）弦乐团和屡获殊荣的德胜小学四季之声合唱团作为特邀嘉宾进行表演。这些才华横溢的小音乐家各司其职，为本次合唱晚会增添了许多色彩。同时，本次晚会也成为了德胜国际与德胜小学艺术交流的重要桥梁。
Desheng Primary School
“乐由心声”合唱晚会是德胜学校（国际）室内合唱团的IB学生的CAS项目之一，CAS也是IBDP课程的核心课程之一。C代表Creative（创新）、A代表Activity (活动)、S代表了Service（服务）。在学习的过程中，学生们在从广泛的实践和服务社会等多样体验中，不断探索生命的意义，同时发掘并培养自己的特长，进而培养学生健全的人格。
With Heart and Voice
从台前到幕后，合唱团全体成员与陈老师一起紧锣密鼓地筹备了很长时间，期待着可以为观众带来独特的视听体验。这场充满包容性和互动性的晚会，同样与德胜国际包容和关爱的理念，不谋而合。
一首由新加坡作曲家陆恒（音译）创作的歌曲将此次晚会推进了高潮。在这首歌曲中，作者采用新颖的舞台呈现方式，通过动人的歌词和优美的旋律表达了人生中那些难得的喜悦。在歌曲中，他使用了最原始的方式去传递快乐——那就是“笑声”。陆恒对“笑声”的全新定义，让观众记忆犹新。
在这首歌曲的排练中，我们克服了种种困难，比如如何在舞台上持久地保持笑容，怎样做到全体一同大笑怎么做可以更好地和观众去互动。
在彩排中，陈老师一直在鼓励大家：“我们的朋友也一定会被我们的笑而感染，一定会为你们的笑容所感动！” 当晚，德胜国际助理校长钟淑仪女士，也在微信朋友圈称赞道：“笑拉近了每个人的距离。” 德胜学校（国际）大家庭其乐融融，度过了美好的夜晚。
在晚会的最后，12年级合唱团委员会与新一届成员进行了神圣的交接仪式。在此，合唱团的新晋成员们祝愿十二年级的合唱团学长、学姐：伍一、张弛、张子菁和杨竞璇等“前辈”，IBDP考试顺利，衷心地感谢你们这些年对合唱团所作的贡献。
从左到右依次：伍一、张子菁、张弛
杨竞璇（后排左一）
伍一和2020届毕业生林祺斌
本次晚会的压轴嘉宾是德胜学校（国际）前合唱团成员罗泽康，他在晚会结和合唱团成员们一起进行了精彩的表演。可以说，这场晚会的成功举办，同样和合唱团的各位前辈的辛勤付出，是分不开的！
罗泽康
衷心感谢前辈们为我们开创了如此光明的道路，让我们可以不断追寻更高的目标，成为更优秀的自己。
作者：
九年级洛克班 邹卓欣
十一年级宾西法尼亚班 陈嘉星
视频拍摄及制作：
九年级柏拉图班 陈科翰
九年级柏拉图班 毛开哲
照片提供：
十一年级宾夕法尼亚班 朱嘉汶
十年级乔布斯班 钟雨洋
编辑：Mr Clarence Tan 滕腾 张楚颖 吴晓旸
排版：张楚颖