Auf Flugeln Des Gesanges

Yenny singing solo in Diasebad's second concert 2003.

Diasebad, some ten amateur singers, without having singing lesson, vocal training before, start exercizing, singing in old age of over 50 years. Many are over 70, near 80 years by now.

Diasebad singing in Diasebad's second concert 2003.

Max singing solo in Diasebad's second concert 2003.

Music: Mendelsohn
Lyrics: Heine

Ade, My Little Star

I Loves You Porgy from Porgy And Bess, Gershwin

Diasebad, some ten amateur singers, without having singing lesson, vocal training before, start exercizing, singing in old age of over 50 years. Many are over 70, near 80 years by now.

Ade solo singing in Diasebad's first Concert in 2001. She recently has passed away.

An Angel's Voice And A Lotus

Diasebad, some ten amateur singers, without having singing lesson, vocal training before, start exercizing, singing in old age of over 50 years. Many are over 70, near 80 years by now.

This is Ketty singing solo in a Diasebad concert of 2003.

Lovely Sights

Seeing the “rambutan Aceh Lebak” tree with plenty of colorful fruits, abundant as bougainville flowers. Seeing lake Pamulang rippling as a beautiful giant carpet. Seeing storks slowly sailing by, high up in the sky. Looking at the full moon from below a tamarind tree, .. Suppose I were an artist, I’d like to paint them.

Happy to be welcomed by hundreds, thousands crème-colored wild flowers along the path-way. How pure, how fair, how fresh as a glorious morning. I name it the “Morning Glory” of Indonesia,

My Morning Glories

Yet, lovelier is the flower I met on the hill in Cinangka. Greeted with a charming smile as in a dream. Not dressed as stewardess, not educated as university student, not as Mona Lisa in a frame, not sitting in a luxurious Mercy, bare footed, without slippers, no make-up and just living in a bamboo hut. That’s, Eve, as jamu (bitter-sweet-hot drinks) vendor.

As a lotus flower in muddy waters, Eve is the most lovely, charming sight.

From Media Indonesia 23 Desember 1992

Alleluja - Mozart

Diasebad, some ten amateur singers, without having singing lesson, vocal training before, start exercizing, singing in old age of over 50 years. Many are over 70, near 80 years by now.

Some Day My Prince Will Come

Lyrics: Larry Morey / Music: Frank Churchill

Diasebad, some ten amateur singers, without having singing lesson, vocal training before, start exercizing, singing in old age of over 50 years. Many are over 70, near 80 years by now.

I love my choir. I have cared, “watered” them till they grow beautifully today after some 12 years by now. I would never willingly leave my choir to the care of another conductor, even though he might be better than I am. The choir would languish and die. Except if he/she could love this choir of old, uneducated, untalented singers more than I do. Yet, I don’t believe there is any one who ever would.

Is it wrong if I am so unwilling to step down? Could a loving mother ever leave the care of her children to another woman, even were she poor?

Diasebad Concert: October 1, 2005

Monkey

Straying Monkey's in Pantai Indah Kapuk.
She's waiting for me to open my picnic.

"Peking" Birds Chirping, Flitting On A Rice-field After Harvest