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Ogdon-Stokowski CD
Aix-en-Provence, 2nd Feb 2011. Most people have their favourite place, favourite wine, favourite composer. Here, I would like to share my favourite recording. Nearly a decade ago, I acquired from Brenda Lucas herself some recordings and manuscripts of her late
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Concert Review: Michael Chance & City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
Tuesday 25 January 2011. Concert Hall, HK City Hall With a slight divergence from mainstream classical concert programmes, City Chamber Orchestra Hong Kong’s choice of performances captures a fuller audience base with diversified tastes. A counter-tenor recital featuring early vocal
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Chinese repertoire or not Chinese repertoire?
The following is a fictional story. Any resemblance to actual individuals or events is purely coincidental. An internationally renowned conductor is invited to lead the New Year concert at one of the most prestigious halls in China. The maestro kindly
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Concert Review from Geneva
Geneva, 27th November 2010. A year so dominated by the economic downturn in the West and the rise of China epitomized by the Shanghai Expo in the East, few may have noticed that this year marks the 170th birthday of
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A Tale of Two Cities
A tale of two cities. I have no idea when this handy name came about, but it is now used by the literati to compare pairs of cities like Shanghai and Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, and
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Summing up and looking ahead
A crazy 2010 has come to an end. It was the year of the Shanghai Expo and vuvuzelas, of positive events and negative happenings, and not least, lots and lots of music festivals. Apart from the countless music events and
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Concert Reviews: The Snowman & The Bear and Gong Dongjian Recital
The Snowman and the Bear (City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong) 5PM, Sunday 5 December 2010. Concert Hall, HK City Hall As a pre-Christmas concert for children, featuring a narration of two children’s beloved tales with muted animation and a
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The ECO Music Cruise
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I decided to board Windstar Cruises for my first music cruise, but it definitely exceeded whatever I had in mind. To be frank, I boarded the cruise ship extremely naïve. For one,
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