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Press Release
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Music from the Heart
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With heartfelt dedication in both the programming and the interpretation -A heart-to-heart occasion bonded by music
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Music from the Heart I
Music from the Heart I has been a regular feature on the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra seasonal agenda since 1998. While each time the focus may be slightly different, the purpose is one and the same: to showcase the many faceted talents of the members of the Orchestra. The items on the programme are carefully hand-picked, and the presentation format often innovative, to give our audience a delightful surprise and refreshing feel every time.
This is a concert series that provides a platform where musicians of the Orchestra can showcase their many talents and composers can explore the freedom of creation.
To showcase the many faceted talents of the members of HKCO with carefully hand-picked programme, and the presentation format often innovative.
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My Choice
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My first choice would be Music from the Heart. It is a concert series that discovers new talents, new music and new ways of interpreting music. We need more new inspiration of a high quality to give continuation to the legacy of traditional arts and to promote modern music. Many great talents in history also needed the help of seasoned artists to have the opportunity to make themselves known. I still remember how I benefitted from the kind advice and generous support of my seniors when I was a novice in the world of Cantonese Opera. We should salute the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, with its venerable status as the only professional, world-class Chinese orchestra in Hong Kong, for its enthusiastic support of new talents by giving them their much needed break. I do look forward to another refreshing concert experience with the Music from the Heart series in the 28th Orchestral Season.
Koi Ming-fai
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10 .6.2005 8:00PM
Ensemble Concert Overture Liu Wenjin
Ensemble Ethnic Charms
Jasmine (Han Ethnic Group) Liu Wenjin
A Beautiful Brocade (Zhuang Ethnic Group) Wang Kunnan, Wei Shiwen
Dance of Axi Tribe under the Moon (Yi Ethnic Group)
Peng Xiuwen
You Give Me a Rose (Weiwuer Ethnic Group)
Arr. by Wang Xiaofei
Dance Music of Zang People (Zang Ethnic Group) Ai Hua
The Running Horses (Meng Ethnic Group)
(2nd Movement of Spring Suite) Gu Guanren
Drum Music The Lion Dance Drum Music Chen Zuohui Orch. by Li Zhuxin
Leading Percussionist: Wang Dong
Pipa Solo Song of the Frontier Ancient Melody
Arr. by Liu Dehai
Pipa: Zhang Ying
Sanxian The Night in Frontier Fortress Fei Jianrong
Sanxian: Zhao Taisheng
Giant Dizi Solo All Red the River Ancient Melody
Arr. by Chan Hung-yin
Giant Dizi: Chan Hung-yin
Marimba and Ensemble Capriccio Viennese Fritz Kreisler
Arr. by Ronald Chin
Marimba: Ronald Chin
Zhongruan and Orchestra In Remembrance of Yunnan
Liu Xing
3rd Movement
Zhongruan: Cui Can
Erhu and Orchestra A Northern Henan Ballad Liu Wenjin
Arr. by Luo Weilun
Erhu: Liu Yang
11.6.2005 8:00PM
Ensemble Concert Overture Liu Wenjin
Ensemble Ethnic Charms
Jasmine (Han Ethnic Group) Liu Wenjin
A Beautiful Brocade (Zhuang Ethnic Group) Wang Kunnan, Wei Shiwen
Dance of Axi Tribe under the Moon (Yi Ethnic Group)
Peng Xiuwen
You Give Me a Rose (Weiwuer Ethnic Group)
Arr. by Wang Xiaofei
Dance Music of Zang People (Zang Ethnic Group) Ai Hua
The Running Horses (Meng Ethnic Group) Gu Guanren
Liuqin Solo Swords Xu Changjun
Liuqin: Ge Yang
Quartet Apricot Blossoms Against a Blue Sky Yao Henglu
Erhu: Ho Tao Zheng: Luo Jing Pipa: Zhang Ying
Yangqin: Yu Mei-lai
Erhu Solo Scenes of a Mountain Village
Arr. by Chen Yaoxing
Erhu: Lu Yunxia Yangqin accompanied: Yu Mei-lai
Ensemble Chiu Chow Music Medley Choazhou Folk Music Arr. by Chu Yung
Traditional Suona: Xia Poyan Wuxian: Chu Yung
Zheng and Orchestra The Ripping Brook Folk Tune of Yunnan Arr. by Zhang Dasen
Zheng: Luo Jing
Pipa and Liuqin Concerto Impressions of Songshan
Wang Huiran
Pipa: Zhang Ying Liuqin: Ge Yang
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Music from the Heart II
Music from the Heart II is the platform for premiering new and original works by composers and held in June each year. The purpose of this concert series is to promote Chinese music and give it new creative dimensions. Since 2004, it has also included exchanges with music students in the Department of Composition of various colleges and universities.
A platform for new and original works by composers. The purpose of this concert series is to promote Chinese music and give it new creative dimensions.
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts & HKCO
- Ensemble and Solo Concert
12.6.2005 3:00PM
Zheng Ensemble Ambush from All Sides
Pipa Solo A Thousand Sweeps
36 Reeds Soprano Sheng Solo Fuga (The 2nd Movement of Sonata No 1 in G minor for unaccompanied Violin)
Dizi Duet Squabbling
Cantonese Music with Five Pieces Link after Link
Ensemble Music of Jiangnan Sizhu Going to the Fair
Suona and Orchestra Worship of the Phoenix
Zhongruan and Orchestra
The Uncompromising, Self-sufficient Soul
Percussion Concerto Flying Dragons and Jumping Tigers
12.6.2005 8:00PM
Dizi and Zhongruan
Yan Zi Hui Shi (When the Wild Geese Return) Li Cheong
Quartet for Dizi, Gehu, Marimba and Percussion
A Day in Cesky Krumlov II Kwan Lai-yan, Livia (Commissioned by Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra/ World Premiere)
Quartet for Dizi, Erhu, Guzheng and Pipa
The Saltation of Calligraphy Ko Chiu-yung
Ensemble The 3-3-4 Motive Alfred Wong
Percussion and Dizi Blue Tourmaline Tang Lok-yin
Dizi, Zheng and Percussion Sword Dance Leung Miu-yee Kitty
Zheng, Sheng and Pipa Willow in the Wind Wu Cheuk-nam
Zheng Solo Yi Chin King
Gaohu and Zheng The Spring in Southern Canton Yu Qiwei
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10-11.6.2005
Time: 8:00 pm
Date:
12.6.2005
Time: 8:00 pm
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Venue:
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Studio Theatre |
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$120, 90
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Wong On-yuen
Conductor |
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Concertmaster-cum-Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Wong On-yuen graduated from the Secondary School affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, and the China Conservatory.
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Apart from giving performing tours with the HKCO and performing solo on those occasions in China, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe, he has held more than a hundred huqin solo recitals since 1981, including a widely acclaimed recital at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Wong has cut 26 solo recordings and was the producer of 26 albums of Chinese music.
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The Huqin World of Wong On-yuen (1984) won the Gold Tripod Award for the Best Performance, the first ever presented by the Taiwan Government Information Office. He was presented with the Performer of the Year Award by the Hong Kong Artists' Guild in 1989 and the Most Outstanding Asian Artists Award by the Chinese-American Arts Council of New York in 1991, the latter of which was among the Top Ten Music Stories of the Year in Hong Kong. He was made an MBE (a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1997. In 1999, Wong was on the cover of Strad, the world's leading magazine on string music.
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The New York Times has this to say of Wong's performance, "...The huqin family of the Chinese strings seems to have opened up for Westerners a more refined and intricate space in art", "the variety of tone colour he produced was enough to make a listener momentarily regard the four strings of the violin as needless luxury."
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Chew Hee-chiat
Conductor |
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Currently the Assistant Conductor of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO). Chew has been the Music Director of Professional Cultural Center Orchestra (PCCO)of Malaysia since 1996.
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His works include Orchestra Suite No1, Orchestra Suite No2, The Third, and Fantasy Dance.
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