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Rock Out
It’s that time of month again when the walls pound with the sound of the underground. In Underground 34 this month, expect to see, hear and boogie to Qiu Hong, Bereavement, Elf Fatima, Kissing on the Dancefloor and Snoblind giving it their all. Mosh along to Edge on November 10 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $40, contact Chris B at 9486 4648. |
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Sweet Memories
All nostalgic for the good old singing days, the alumni of Lady Ho Tung Hall at HKU will be turning back the clock to the heady days when their youthful warbles won prizes and fame. The chicas led by Bell Tsia invite you on a trip down memory lane in the Lady Ho Tung Hall 55th Anniversary Music Show from November 9 – 11 at the Fringe Club’s Fringe Studio. Tickets are available at HK Ticketing: 31 288 288 and are $85 and $95. The show starts at 8pm. |
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Winning Ways
Julie Kuok, pianist and artist in residence at RTHK Radio 4, seems to like winning things. She does quite a lot of it. When she graduated with a BA from the Oberlin Conservatory in the United States she won the Pi Kappa Lambda prize for excellence in academic work and musicianship. Then she was the first Hong Konger to win a full scholarship to the Royal Academy and, when graduating from there, was awarded the Alexander Roller Prize. Since then she’s filled her trophy cupboard with a swag of other prizes and accolades. Why does everyone make such a fuss over her? See for yourself at 8pm on November 12 when she plays Mozart, Chopin and Liszt in the City Hall Theatre. And did we mention she is dab hand at composition as well? She will also be playing one of her own works called Bagatelle. Tickets from URBTIX, 2734 9009 and cost $90 and $130. |
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Mini Mozarts
Are these kids trying to out-Mozart Mozart or is it just hero worship? Six members of the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra are to be soloists with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra in a concert of highlights from Mozart’s concerto movements. The youngest is eight and the oldest 16 but they still don’t approach the maestro who was already familiar with Europe’s concert stages when he was only six! Still, the concerts on November 10 to 12 should be a well worth going to even if just to be amazed. Tickets are available at URBTIX and cost $60 and $90. See our listings page for complete details.
And for a whole pride of prodigies, don’t miss the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra’s concert on November 5 at 8pm. The 10th Anniversary Celebration Concert – Shining Talented Stars is the concert title – and it kinda says it all, doesn’t it? All those Mozart play-alikes will be parading their musical stuff at the Yuen Long Theatre’s Auditorium – to see them, get your ticket from URBTIX at a cost of $60 – $100. |
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Altogether Now… One,
Two, Three
And here is one that takes the epigram ‘Sharing is caring’ to new heights. Three sisters – Mary, Melody and Enloc Wu – will be fundraising for HKU’s Faculty of Dentistry with a concert that includes a world first – Holst’s Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from the Planets Suite played on one piano by six hands! This really is jollity x 3. Other works in the concert include Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata Op 56 and Rachmaninov’s Valse and Romance for One Piano, Six Hands plus works by Chopin, Schubert/Liszt, Hoffman, Poulenc, Mozart, Bizet and Ravel. It will all be family fun at the Cultural Centre Concert Hall on November 4 at 7:45pm. Tickets are available at URBTIX and range from $90 to $180. |
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Rite Season
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra may be a little seasonally challenged with a Rite of Spring concert when winter is just over the horizon, but Stravinsky’s famous suite of the same name is always good for a bit of riotous excitement. The HKPO is mixing and matching Stravinsky with Adam’s Nixon in China: The Chairman Dances and – get this – Chen Qigang’s Iris Dévoilée with members of the Chinese Hong Kong Orchestra playing trad instruments like the pipa, zheng and erhu. Add to that a couple of sopranos, and this will be a concert you have to go to just for the weirdness of it. Go on – we dare you! It’s playing at the Cultural Centre Concert Hall on November 9 and 11 at 8pm. Tickets available from URBTIX and range from $100 to $300. |
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Hottest
For those of you looking for the next hot thing on Hong Kong’s music scene, you may find it at Tom Lee’s Yamaha Asian Beat Band Competition 2006 Hong Kong. Bands will be vying for a top prize of Yamaha and Zildjian gift certificates worth a cool HK$7,000 all up and an all-paid trip to Kuala Lumpur next year to represent HK at the Asia Grand Final. But first they’ve got to get through the heats on November 14 and 15 at Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre’s Theatre. If you’re not a band, just be there to boooogie! Cyberslide into www.tomleemusic.com for all the details. |
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Coolest
And if you are a jazzman, Slawomir Jaskulke may just be the coolest dude music-wise you come across this year. His invitation to play in HK is part of RTHK’s fascinating venture Beyond Borders Concerts in which Radio 4 collaborates with consulates to bring their indigenous musicians out to Hong Kong. Jaskulke is Polish and wherever he plays the critics go into raptures. Needless to say, he’s won a whole lot of prizes… He’s all yours for the night on November 9 at RTHK’s Broadcasting House, Studio 1 at 8pm. For more details check out www.rthk.org.hk/special/musicbeyondborders. |
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Coming Up and
Going Down
Il Divo, the suave Italian a cappella fellas, are coming to town January 22 and tickets are on sale now. Call 31 288 288 to get yours and see them play Asia World Arena with the HK Sinfonietta Orchestra. As if anyone thought the Diva would actually show, Mariah Carey has cancelled – apparently “due to unfulfilled contractual obligations by concert organisers”, whatever that means. First Robbie, now her – Kanye, pleeese don’t be next! Speaking of Mr West, should he decide to show, tickets are now on sale at HK Ticketing (31 288 288). Prices range from $380 to $1180. |
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Back to Bach
The Hong Kong Virtuosi is a collective of Hong Kong’s most talented musicians – that many egos in one room never seems like a good idea but, hey, these people can make very good music together. They’ll be playing Vivaldi and Bach on November 15 at 8pm. Call URBTIX at 2734 9009 to book tickets. Prices range from $120 to $1000 |
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Wild Day Out
The folks over at San Miguel are gearing up for a Wild Day Out which promises to be a boogie box of fun and games. All the beautiful people will be making themselves seen and heard – David Tao, Louis Cheung, Candy Lo, F.I.R. and many more – but you don’t need to take any notice of that. Just go on down and get wild! It all starts at 12 noon and tickets are $190 and $290. Call 2830 2011 for enquiries. |
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Just Jazz
If you know jazz in HK, you know the Blue Door Jazz Club where, for the next two weekends, three locally-based jazz groups and a Dutch group fronted by European jazz greats Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink will be hunkering down to some real jazz, no added sugar, no preservatives. Just unbelievable jazz. Go, go, go on November 3 and 4 and November 10 and 11. Call Blue Door Jazz club at 2858 6555 or email bluedoorjazzclub@gmail.com If you know jazz in HK, you know the Blue Door Jazz Club where, for the next two weekends, three locally-based jazz groups and a Dutch group fronted by European jazz greats Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink will be hunkering down to some real jazz, no added sugar, no preservatives. Just unbelievable jazz. Go, go, go on November 3 and 4 and November 10 and 11. Call Blue Door Jazz club at 2858 6555 or email bluedoorjazzclub@gmail.com |
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Holy, Holy, Holy
The Hong Kong Youth Choir takes on Andrew Lloyd Webber in a concert of favourites from his repertoire – Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Starlight Express... But the highlight will be Requiem, which the choir will present in its entirety. Now who will sing Sarah Brightman’s part in the Pie Jesu? On November 5 at 8pm be at Poly U’s Jockey Club Auditorium with a ticket ($100 – $500) from URBTIX.
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