By Valerie Lim (Winds Section Leader), He Tingli (Quartermaster) and Lin Jiarui (Chairperson)

SOTA concert pictures courtesy of Aklen Chua and Ryan Poh, Raffles Photographic Society

The balmy embrace of Mongolian grasslands welcomes you. A fresh summer breeze lingers – at times a silk-lined glove, at times a chorus of frightful passion. You turn as Mongols race across wind-swept hills on horseback. 

At the next moment, the landscape fades into the celestial tranquillity of the Tibetan dawn, accompanied by a soft, quiet snow. At last, the first golden rays peek out behind jagged peaks; the sky bursts into a flaming palette of colours, as you bask in all its warmth and glory.

Welcome to a realm inaccessible to language; a realm where words fail, and music speaks.