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Friday Nov 3
A single voice warbling high and low notes simultaneously? Impossible, you might say. But not to the Mongolians who have been practising it for centuries. Known as khoomii, overtone singing or even Mongolian throat singing, it can be heard in Eclectic Tales from Mongolia, a concert of jazz, improvisation, Western contemporary music and Mongolian vocal gymnastics. Li Chin Sung and The Khoomii Sound Machine headline the world premiere of this dynamic music act at the City Hall Concert Hall at 8pm. Tickets range from $120 to $320. Call 2734 9009. The show starts at 8pm.
The HK Philharmonic is off to the movies in their latest venture, Hollywood Spectacular. Erich Kunzel, world renowned classical crossover conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, will take the HKPO through a selection of scores from Disney films to epics like the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a concert programme which also lists a tribute to Hollywood’s music great, John Williams. Join Kunzel and the HK Philharmonic at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium for music from the movies at 8pm. Tickets are $100 to $300 from URBTIX, 2734 9009. |
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November 3 – 5
It’s been 40 years since the Cultural Revolution but the Amity Drama Club has not forgotten. The Club’s latest is Man! Oh, Man!, a play set in the ’70s around university graduates during and after the 10 years of the revolution. Based on the banned novel of the same name (Ren Ah Ren) by Dai Hou Ying, the play explores themes of compassion and idealism in one of the most controversial episodes in China’s history. Man! Oh Man! plays at the City Hall Theatre. Tickets are $100 and $150 from URBTIX, 2734 9009. Shows at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. See listings for details. |
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Saturday Nov 4
ORBIS, the flying eye hospital, have teamed up with insurance firm BUPA to raise awareness about blindness. The inaugural Night Walkathon will see participants walking throughout the night, starting from Wanchai Sports Ground at 11.30pm, and finally arriving at 6.30am the next morning at Repulse Bay Beach. As part of the walk, you can take part in their blindfold experiment, where you will be blindfolded for a short distance and will have to rely on family and friends to guide you. There is a shuttle-bus service from 7am to 8am on Sunday morning from the beach to Wanchai MTR station. Call 2595 0263 for details.
In 2003, Ryuichi Sakamoto, the famed Japanese composer, and alva noto (Carsten Nicolai), a German sound artist and producer, teamed up for a CD called Vrioon that took the world of experimental electronic music by meditative storm. British music mag, The Wire, awarded it Best Electronic Release of the Year. Vrioon was followed by insen, which surpasses the original for innovation and pure loveliness. As Sakamoto plays, alva noto transforms his piano music into an electronic sound and visual landscape one reviewer described as “…so unbearably archetypal and moving you can’t imagine anyone even approaching its masterful grasp of all things sublime.” Watch and hear the future of music in the City Hall Concert Hall at 7:15pm and 9:45pm. Tickets are $150 – $450, from URBTIX. |
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Sun Nov 5 and 12
A Percussion Carnival? Sounds like one heck of a lot of noise but the World Percussion ensemble and Brazilian percussion maestro Carlos Ferreira will be part of it, as well as father and son combination, Mark Lung and Lung Heung-wing. The carnival drums from auditoriums at the Yuen Long Theatre and the Tsuen Wan Town Hall respectively. Tickets are $90 to $180 from URBTIX on 2734 9009. The show starts at 3pm. 9. Show starts 7:45pm. |
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Monday Nov 6
Guitar great Yngwie Malmsteen unleashes his all at HITEC as part of his Unleash the Fury Tour. Expect awesome riffs and tunes from this soloist, and have a head banging old time. Tickets, at HK Ticketing, 31 288 288, from $280 to $780, the show starts at 8pm. |
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November 10 – 12
Two cultures – Indian and Chinese –
what could they say to each other? city:zen is a powerful collaboration between London-based Shobana Jeyasingh and local choreographer Mui Cheuk-yin that describes a meeting and exploration of the two cultures through the medium of dance. Jeyasingh has won many awards for her dynamic and contemporary style exemplified by Exit No Exit which she dances to Michael Nyman’s live score on the bass clarinet. The cultural exchange in movement will be in the HK Cultural Centre Studio Theatre at 8pm. Tickets, $120 and $240, from URBTIX. |
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Saturday Nov 11
French choreographer Roland Petit has brought together seven ballet dancers from Europe, Asia and South America to star in his Soirée de Danse. Produced by Tamiyo Kusakari, the female lead in the original Japanese Shall We Dance? (not the smaltzy Hollywood remake), this soirée promises to be a night of elegance with excerpts from Carmen and Sophisticated Lady amongst others. It will be at the HK Cultural Centre Grand Theatre at 7:30pm. Tickets, $120 to $340 from URBTIX, 2734 9009. |
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Monday Nov 13
When it comes to singing, nobody does it better than the Welsh and Bryn Terfel is among Wales’ best. He has performed in the world’s top opera houses and is especially known for his Mozart interpretations. Terfel is in Hong Kong for one night only singing arias from Verdi’s Falstaff, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Bizet’s Carmen plus many more classical and folk pieces. Hear the Welsh bass baritone at the HKCC Concert Hall at 8pm. Tickets $295 – $895 from URBTIX. |
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Until November 15
Say ‘experimental’ and ‘Japanese’ in the same breath and you’ll come up with one thing – Terayama Shuji. Writer, director, playwright and filmmaker, Shuji continually pushed artistic boundaries while making searing social comment. The Repertory Cinema has chosen his film work for their third programme of the year and for the next two weeks you can be bewildered and/or provoked by his imagery. All the films are in Japanese with English subtitles, and most are Category III, so prepare to be shocked. The programme plays at the HK Film Archive and the HK Science Museum. Tickets are $20 and $50, available through URBTIX, 2734 9009. |
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