{"id":9725,"date":"2012-01-30T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9725"},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:21:01","slug":"ukm-celebrates-64th-birthday-of-chancellor-to-a-royal-concert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/january-2012\/ukm-celebrates-64th-birthday-of-chancellor-to-a-royal-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM Celebrates 64th Birthday of Chancellor to A Royal Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2012%2Fjanuary-2012%2Fukm-celebrates-64th-birthday-of-chancellor-to-a-royal-concert%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9725&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MONDAY, 30 JANUARY 2012 17:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/konsert-1.jpg\" alt=\"konsert 1\" width=\"427\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/konsert-1.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/konsert-1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPixs by Ahmad Shahiddan Saidi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BANGI, 28 Jan. 2012 \u2013\u00a0The UKM Royal Concert 2012 held to celebrate the 64th birthday of the Chancellor of The National\u00a0 University of Malaysia, Tuanku Muhriz Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Munawir at the Tun Abdul Razak Hall (Dectar) in the campus here tonight was enthralling and most captivating.<\/p>\n<p>At the function, besides a cake cutting ceremony, Tuanku Muhriz who is also the\u00a0Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus, was presented with an Ibanez guitar as a birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>The Tengku Ampuan Besar Tuanku Aishah Rohani binti Almahrum Tengku Besar Mahmud was also in attendance besides UKM\u2019s Pro-Chancellor, Tunku Intan Safinaz binti Tuanku Abdul Halim Mua&#8217;dzam Shah.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Wira Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin in her welcoming speech read a seloka (poem) and a pantun.<\/p>\n<p>In part she said the Beatles once sang \u201cWill you still need me when I\u2019m 64?<\/p>\n<p>The UKM workforce will always be loyal, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The capacity crowd was enthralled right through the almost two hours of music and songs by the UKM\u2019s Orchestra conducted by renowned national music virtuoso, Dato\u2019 Dr Johari Salleh and its conductor, Mohamad Adzan Mohamad Fadzil.<\/p>\n<p>Tuanku Muhriz\u2019s son, Tunku Zain Al-\u2018Abdin and Tengku Sarah Rahayu binti Tengku Baharuddin also gave their renditions on the piano.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was also entertained by popular singer Najib Hanif, the \u2018Tom Jones of Malaysia\u2019 in the 70s who sang Tom Jones\u2019 songs \u201cHelp Yourself\u201d and \u201cDelilah\u201d and another song \u201cBiar Bulan Bicara\u201d (Let the Moon Talk).<\/p>\n<p>Another popular singer Dayang Nurfaizah captivated the audience with her four songs. UKM students Mohd Iskandar Zulkifli, Nik Husna Nik Ali and Nur Ilham Rameli also rose to the occasion with their performences.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups which captivated the audience includes ARTISUKMA UKM dance troupe, Trio PERMATApintar and Trio Perkasa Remaja.<\/p>\n<p>Five instrumentals by UKM\u2019s Orchestra rendering the late Tan Sri P Ramlee\u2019s songs and a Gamelan presentation culminated the night making it a most memorable evening for the audience. This was followed by the Royal Supper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 30 JANUARY 2012 17:16 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pixs by Ahmad Shahiddan Saidi BANGI, 28 Jan. 2012 \u2013\u00a0The UKM<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/january-2012\/ukm-celebrates-64th-birthday-of-chancellor-to-a-royal-concert\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9728,"parent":1242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9725","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9725\/revisions\/9729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}