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The Story of Lyricist Chris Shum & His Ways to Put Story Into Music
31-05-19 Lyrics are magic, being the art of germinating emotions and imaginations. The following, from the song “Windmills of Your Mind”, are my best-loved lyrics, though not written by Chris Shum: Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball…
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白雪的《過春天》：內地獲獎的「港片」，比我們更「港片」？
我覺得：如果港產片拍得好、有水準、有觀眾，什麼都有可能，如果港產片不濟，半條生路都沒有。 在我們熱烈討論的時候，內地電影商已經默默地起革命。萬達傳媒剛剛起步，「格殺勿論」，拍了一部非常好看的「港片」，全片主要講廣東話，極像港產片，它叫《過春天》(The Crossing)…..
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Mainland ‘Hong Kong’ film The Crossing: the cultural stream has been crossed?
21-05-19 By word of mouth, I was told the Chinese Mainland made a very special and good film The Crossing. It was made by a very gifted Mainland film director Bai Xue. The story and setting were Hong Kong, the characters were Hong Kong, the language was Hong Kong, the style was Hong Kong, few…
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上環：一百年前的鬼怪故事，今天文娛中心的兒童音樂會
上環文娛中心，在皇后大道中345號，1989年建成，快三十年了。約一百年前，那裏是一座紅磚和麻石維多利亞古典風格的街市，非常英國，但在八十年代拆掉。如果追古思舊，去今天港澳碼頭對面的「西港城」吧，它是老街市的北座，不過是愛德華時代的建築，給保存下來…..
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Sheung Wan: Delightful Night Stroll and Music Soul
16-05-19 Life is as fast as a turbojet, isn’t it? When I was a little boy, my mother used to take me to the Western Market in Sheung Wan. It was a wet and smelly place housing humble stalls for pretty much everything, all fresh, including meat, fish, fruit and vegetables. Built in 1850s, the…
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譚兆民：藝團總監面對挑戰，亦要做好工作的六大法則
譚兆民(Paul Tam) 有幹勁、有夢、有火。在2014年，獲聘任為香港芭蕾舞團(Hong Kong Ballet)的行政總監，短短數年間，舞團充滿活力。 平時的Paul，溫文有禮，嘴角掛笑，有藝術家的氣質，但是，一談起工作，他就變得雀躍。那天，和他喝咖啡，一談，就是兩小時…..
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Paul Tam, ED of Hong Kong Ballet: 6 Ways to fulfill at work
10-05-19 Paul Tam is an art booster and the Executive Director of Hong Kong Ballet, the premier ballet company in Asia and a world-class institution that represents Hong Kong’s unique character transforming the western art of ballet. With nearly 50 dancers from Hong Kong and the world, our city, through the performing group, has proudly…
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荒誕《粵劇特朗普》脫離傳統粵劇，新光戲院離奇出現「外星」觀眾
傳統的粵劇人，聽到李居明三個字便徬徨，因為他要「改良」粵劇。不過，我喜歡他的《粵劇毛澤東》，因為有戲味，劇情講述毛澤東和三個愛人的糾纏，劇本結構良好，充滿張力，觀眾情緒起伏。 不喜歡李居明新作《粵劇特朗普》，它的內容荒誕、穿鑿附會，硬把毫無關係的事情拉在一起，硬把講不通的道理說成某種政治意義，劇情豐富卻乏力，當它愈來愈誇張，就變得愈反高潮。真正收穫是看到一大群精采萬分的演員，他們能演、能唱，有些還能雜耍，這些優秀伶人，平常在演傳統粵劇，對於不看粵劇的觀眾，根本不會認識他們。李居明通過《粵劇特朗普》把粵劇普及化，他竟然有本事吸引到年輕觀眾入場，好像「外星人」首次去新光戲院探秘，讓新一代認識到如龍貫天、新劍郎、陳鴻進、王超群、陳咏儀等傑出前輩，他們實力雄厚，除了粵劇，其實還可演電影、電視…..
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Edward Li’s Trump On Show―the confounding Cantonese opera in which Donald Trump can sing Chinese
01-05-19 Edward Li Kui Ming is a legendary and astonishing personality in the performing business of Hong Kong. His initial career was an administrator and scriptwriter with a movie company. In the late 80s, he transformed himself into an expert in numerology and fengshui. Few years ago, he leased an old theatre Sunbeam Theatre in…
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《Beyond日記之海闊天空》：高志森的青春音樂劇能否為香港打開外地市場
高志森送來短訊：「我和四個青年人，葉冬賢、謝家俊、陳律廷和伍兆邦合作，做了一個音樂劇：《Beyond日記之海闊天空》(Really Love You)，在藝術中心壽臣劇院公演之後，下一站是星加坡，請來看吧，給你留座。」我說：「我也搞過小劇場演出，眾多開支，只有數百個座位的收入，經營困難，所以一定要買票支持…..
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