Category: music

Irma @ The Vine Centre – 18 September, 2015

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Irma’s second visit to Hong Kong in 2015, saw a packed Vine Centre royally entertained as the singer who found fame on youtube showcased new songs and old favourites.
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Septiembre Mexicano

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Experience Mexico during Septiembre Mexicano as The Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong organizes a series of art, culture, music and gastronomic activities, open to the public, to celebrate its 205th anniversary of independence.

Fashion
Mexican designer Carmen Rion, presents her latest textile designs at the “Renaissance of Fashion” event. Rion is also a fashion researcher and is well known for ‘rescuing’ traditional Mexican textiles and integrating them into her contemporary creations.
Carmen Rion
Date: 9am-5:45pm, 31 August – 25 September, 2015.
Venue: The Fashion Gallery, Polytechnic University, 11 Yuk Choi Rd, Hung Hom.
Tickets: Free

Food
Enjoy millenary dishes and 21st century Mexican haute cuisine as chef Jose Lazcarro prepares some of the most traditional dishes including: ceviche, shrimp agua chile, mole poblano, green pipian at Cafe Too and the Lobster Bar in the Island Shangri La. Chef Lazcarro worked with Alain Ducasse in Paris in 2009, then in the USA with Robert McCormick and is currently Executive Chef at Quinze in his hometown of Puebla.
Chef Jose Lazcarro
Date: 8-30 September 2015.
Venues: Lobster Bar and Grill, 6/F, Island Shangri-La; Cafe Too, 7/F, Island Shangri-La.

Art
Abstract artist Roberto Turnbull inaugurated his first solo exhibit of 26 artworks entitled Mexican Big Bang: Paintings by Roberto Turnbull at the HK Museum and Art Gallery, HK University earlier this month. Turnbull is a versatile artist comfortable in the realm of painting and sculpting; in the chaos of the flat abstraction, and in the order of three-dimensional geometry.
Mexican Big Bang
Roberto Turnbull
Date: 9 September – 29 November, 2015
Venue: Drake Gallery, HK Museum and Art Gallery, HK University
Tickets: Free

Film
Alamar (To the Sea, 2009), directed, written and produced, Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, captures the unconditional love of a father for his son as they spend time together amid the stark beauty of unspoiled nature of the Banco Chinchorro coral reef before the son departs for Italy.

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Alamar
Alamar (To the Sea, 2009), directed, written and produced, Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, captures the unconditional love of a father for his young son as they spend time together living in a stilt house amid the stark beauty of unspoiled nature of the Chinchorro coral reef before the son departs for Italy.
Date: 7pm, 24 September, 2015
Venue: Global Lounge, G/F, Fong Shu Chuen Amenities Centre, HK University.
More info: +852-2511-3305 / [email protected]

Music
Ernesto Anaya is one of the most popular Mexican musicians of the last 30 years offers. His countryside roots combined with an operatic style create a very particular and original style of Mexican folkloric music. Anaya is a singer, composer, violinist, guitarist, pianist, and producer, as well as a jaranero or jarana player. The Jarana is a guitar-shaped instrument from the southern region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
Ernesto Anaya
Date: 27, 29 September
Venue: Orange Peel
Tickets: tbc

Septiembre Mexicano
More info: facebook.com/consulmexhk

Source: Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong

The Book of the Hanging Gardens

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RAPSOVOCE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE brings together pianist Nancy Loo, baritone Caleb Woo and soprano Jasmine Law, presenting a German song recital of Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens), Op. 15, and selections by Johannes Brahms, whom Schoenberg hailed as a great progressive, a great innovator in the realm of musical language.

The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15, is Schoenberg’s fifteen-part song cycle composed between 1908 and 1909, set to the poems of Stefan George. It is the first composition in Schoenberg’s atonal period. The poems of the ‘Hanging Gardens’ are all miniatures, elliptically relating the progress of an intense, ultimately doomed love-affair between two young lovers, ending with the woman’s departure and the disintegration of the garden.

Performers:
Jasmine Law 羅曉晴 (soprano)
Caleb Woo 胡永正 (baritone)
Nancy Loo 羅乃新 (piano)

Programme:
Johannes Brahms:
Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1
Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 6
Vier ernste Gesänge Op. 121
Arnold Schoenberg:
Das Buch der hängenden Gärten Op. 15

浪漫時期作曲家布拉姆斯被奧地利作曲家荀伯克譽為偉大的音樂語言創新者，影響了很多他的早期作品。荀伯克於1908-1909年間取材自德國詩人喬治·斯特凡的詩，創作出由十五首歌曲組成的聯篇歌曲《伊甸之書，作品編號十五》，是荀伯克的無調性作曲時期的第一個作品。《伊甸之書》講述一對年輕戀人之間的戀愛、進展，其中一人的離去和像伊甸園一般美的花園最後解體結束。

著名鋼琴家羅乃新將與年輕歌唱家羅曉晴及胡永正合作，呈現這套鮮有在本地音樂會舞台上出現的二十世紀經典曲目，以及布拉姆斯的聲樂作品。

For more info, please visit www.rapsovoce.org or write to [email protected]
Visit our event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1565306410360880/

The Book of the Hanging Gardens
RapsoVoce Performance Collective
When: 7:30pm, 22 August, 2015
Where: HKAPA, Recital Hall
Tickets: $180 from HKTicketing

Blur Live @ HKCEC – 22 July, 2015

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Blur rocked a sold-out HKCEC Hall 5 with a selection of greatest hits and tracks from their new album The Magic Whip – written in Hong Kong after the bands last concert here in 2013. The album is full of astute observations about life in in the SAR, but there is something a little bit extra special hearing live songs and tales about your home. If there was one complaint, the gig was not even two hours, so many great songs unplayed… Thanks for coming Blur, see you again soon luv Hong Kong!
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Robbie Williams Let Me Entertain You Tour 2015 CANCELLED

The Asian legs of Robbie Williams Tour including Hong Kong on the 23 September, 2015 are cancelled.

Refunds by credit card automatically, cash refunds from HKTicketing Box Office at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

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Tallis Vocalis: Victoria’s Requiem @ All Saints’ Church – 28 June, 2015

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Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Requiem is widely regarded as the greatest masterpiece of Renaissance polyphony. Tallis Vocalis will perform this great work in their second concert entitled ‘In Memoriam’, on 28 June 2015 at All Saints’ Cathedral, Hong Kong.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the concert brings together music written in the Renaissance period and the present day on the theme of remembering those we have lost. Victoria’s Requiem was written for his patron the Holy Roman Empress Maria. This Spanish work sets itself apart from its English and Italian Renaissance contemporaries by its mystical intensity of expression achieved through the simplest musical means.

The Requiem will be interspersed with four contemporary works: Arvo Pärt’s Da pacem Domine (a tribute to those who died in the 2004 Madrid bombings) and The Woman With the Alabaster Box (which references Jesus’ burial); James MacMillan’s A Child’s Prayer (written after the Dunblane massacre in 1996) and John Tavener’s Song for Athene (a tribute to his friend Athene Hariades).

Christopher Watson, of The Tallis Scholars and Theatre of Voices will conduct the concert.

In Memoriam
Tallis Vocalis
Date: 8pm, 28 June, 2015
Venue: All Saints’ Cathedral, 11 Pak Po Street, Mongkok, Hong Kong
Tickets: $250, online reservation commences 1 June 2015
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Programme
Victoria: Requiem (Officium Defunctorum 1605)
Pärt: Da pacem Domine
Pärt: The Woman With the Alabaster Box
MacMillan: A Child’s Prayer
Tavener: Song for Athene

KK Live

KK Live

KK may have started his career with a single line in the song “chhod aaye hum..” in the movie ‘Maachis’ but over the last 19 years he has gone on to sing over 500 songs in various languages and remains today one of the most successful Indian male playback singer with hits songs like Tu ne maari entryaan (Gunday), India waale from the Shah Rukh Khan Starrer, (Happy New Year) and Yaara re (Roy) to name a few.
Some of his best known hits include:
Tadap tadap (Hum Dil de chuke sanam)
Main hu Don (Don)
Aankhon mein teri (Om Shanti Om)
O meri Jaan (Life in a Metro)
Tu hi Meri shab hai (Gangster)
Piya Aaye na (Aashiqui 2)
Alvida (Life in a Metro)
Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Desi Boyz (Desi Boyz)
Kya mujhe pyaar hai (Woh Lamhe )
A dynamic stage performer, the multi award winning KK love to entertain with his mix of romantic songs and peppy dance numbers.

KK Live
Red Peppers Entertainment
Date: 8pm 18 June, 2015
Venue: KITEC, Rotunda 3
Tickets: $1,250, $750, $550, $350 from Cityline

Blur – The Magic Whip: Made in Hong Kong

‘The Magic Whip: Made in Hong Kong’ is a 30-minute film about the making of Blur’s new album. Featuring interviews and studio footage shot by the band it, unintentionally perhaps, offers an interesting insight into how creative non-HongKongers see our home town.

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