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Let Us Sing Together And Along: The Young Choral Festival Leader Kelvin Lau (劉灝顯) Explains Why Choral Singing Is Great And How His Reverse Thinking Works
19-06-24 What is “Reverse Thinking”? To put it in a simple way, turning the problem upside-down and finding a solution upside-down is reverse thinking. To put it in layman’s terms, it is about how you solve an old problem from a new angle. Music contests are a good example. They are supposed to be a…
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CY Leo Is Too Good To Be True: A Good Music Skill, A Good Look, A Good Family, A Good Academic Qualification And A Good Girlfriend: Being The World-renowned Harmonica Artist, What Can Be His Fears Of The Unknown?
08-03-24 In the mystery of music lie the secrets that a talent will spend his whole life to uncover. He likes to feel un-settled and has huge inventories of worries of the unknown. When trials of life, one after another, come to test his faith in art, doubt will be removed one day if he…
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“The Need For Exposure To A New Way Of Culture Abroad?” Brilliant Nominee For Emmy & Grammy Music Awards From Hong Kong—Jason Wu(胡奕男)
23-02-23 I agree with what English author Terry Pratcheff said, “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And, the people see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as…
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The Biggest Music Hero In The History Of Hong Kong, Master Joseph Koo Ka-fai—Our Quiet Friendship And The 2 Great Lessons Given by him
01-2-23 Music that has no past, neither has present…nor future. The first phonograph record was released in Hong Kong in the 1930s. Cantonese opera ditties and folk songs were popular in those days. Honouring the old music masters of Hong Kong like heroes is the gesture that we can show for all the hard work…
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Music Is Never Just Music. It Is Bound Up With A Heart-to-heart Infiltration Between Music And A Man/Woman―The Well-liked ‘Slashie’ Music Conductor Stephen Lam(林屴汧)’s Comments On The Missing Part Of Music Education In Hong Kong
27-10-22 The world trend of ‘fusion’ can be fascinating. Taking different philosophies, rationales, cultures and styles and putting them together, yet mixing without absorption, create uniqueness and surprise. Many music fusion projects sadly fail simply because artists do not really understand the music of the other side and just conscript deviating musicians or compose awkward…
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“He Was One Of Those Who Are Not Born Handsome, But Develop Charming Features With Age By Continuously Engaging Their Brains With Intelligent Thoughts”—The Necessary Ability To Size Up The Situation In The Journey Of Any Superstar Like Hins Cheung (張敬軒)
20-08-22 Writer Pawan Mishra pointed out a kind of special celebrities, “He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.” It was said that there are 2 kinds of talent: man-made talent and God-given talent. With God-given talent, you just…
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Serious Or Light? Old Or New?—Joyce Cheung Takes An Inch Of Fusion Music To Become Her Independent Yard
Serious Or Light? Old Or New?—Joyce Cheung Takes An Inch Of Fusion Music To Become Her Independent Yard
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Alan Kwan: Streaming Technology Is Changing The Way We Consume Music In Hong Kong, Bid Farewell to Cantopop And Say Hello to Indies
16-07-20 In the old days, when we loved a song, we saved pocket money and went to a music store to buy vinyl record, cassette tape and compact disc. Internet has affronted and changed human civilization. We could no longer gently ‘touch’ the songs. Now, online ‘streaming platforms’ such as Spotify offer a huge library…
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“MISTY WATER COLORED MEMORIES OF THE WAY WE WERE” ——FORMER SINGER AND PRESENT ANTIQUE EXPERT LISA CHUNG LAI SEUNG TALKED ABOUT HONG KONG MUSIC SCENE IN THE 60S
20-11-19 We need heroes for history but we look up to legends in our real life to inspire——giving us a larger-than-life role model. Heroes made us feel like losers but legends transformed us into the second-best winners. Antique expert Lisa Chung Lai Seung is a legend. Born in 1953, she came from an extremely poor…
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HONG KONG’S JOE JUNIOR: GOLDEN BOY, GOLDEN DAYS, GOLDEN VIEWS
30-9-2019 The time-honoured principle and order in the singing business: the strongest take the front seats, the weaker the rear and the weakest will disappear. Joe Junior started at the age of 17 and has been singing in Hong Kong since 1960s when he was in St. Joseph’s College. Very few stars of his era…