Kee Wah Bakery in Celebration of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Silver Jubilee Concert

The inaugural concert of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1977 was a milestone event on the Hong Kong music scene. Now, 25 years later, the Orchestra will celebrate its Silver Jubilee in two concerts that herald in the 26th Orchestral season with a musical feast that would make the music world sit up and listen, and share the sumptuous fruit of its success.
One of the highlights of the programme is a dramatic sight-and-sound show called The Silver Jubilee Medley. Under the baton of Music Director Yan Huichang, the Orchestra takes the audience down memory lane with a medley of music that highlights 25 years of its performing career against a background of memorable film clips about the history of the Orchestra and the community of Hong Kong. On the night of the full moon, let us all look back at what made Hong Kong today and then look forward to an even brighter tomorrow.
The galaxy of guest performers on the occasion helps showcase the Orchestra's enduring efforts in exploring different musical genres. It includes two famous sopranos of Hong Kong, Barbara Fei and Ella Kiang, who will be singing The Love Song of Kangding and Clever Girls Love to Do Embroidery. Law Kar-ying of Cantonese Opera fame and Liza Wang, the versatile artist that is at home in television and on stage, will sing the Cantonese Operatic song, The Romance of the Peony Fairy. The famous pianist, Liu Shih-kun, will perform the solo for a piano concerto entitled Youth. Wong On-yuen, Concertmaster of the HKCO, will perform Hua-Bang-Zi, a banhu solo that charmed the audience in the inaugural concert 25 years ago. The concerts on the evenings of the Mid-Autumn Festival will follow the "moonlight" theme, and open with a new commissioned work by Dr Chan Wing-wah, Chairman of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild, entitled Moon Over Bounteous Land, which brings fireworks and exuberant energies to the festive occasion.
Nor is that all. There will be a "mystery" item — and you won't know what it is until the compere, Candy Chea discloses it. So don't miss this exciting event — a party of the quarter-century — and make sure you book the best seats there.

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Conductor : Yan Huichang

Vocalists : Liza Wang,
Law Kar-ying,
Barbara Fei and Ella Kiang
Piano : Liu Shih-kun
Banhu : Wong On-yuen
Master of Ceremony : Candy Chea