Events

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus’ “I Wish I Knew How to Quit You“ Concert

Link

https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/?p=114290

CU Chorus 2021 Concert Leaflet

Date:

13 Jun 2021

Time:

3 pm

Venue:

Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

Speaker(s):

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus
Music Director & Conductor: Leon Chu
Pianists: Fung Tik Man, Alexander Wong

Biography of Speaker:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus
Music Director & Conductor: Leon Chu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chorus was founded in 1972 by a group of CUHK students. With Leon Chu as the current Music Director and Conductor, the Chorus presents a range of diversely-themed performances, making an influence to broaden the horizon of local choral music scene. The Chorus has constantly engaged in exchange activities with choirs in the mainland China and Southeast Asia, and in recent years the Chorus was also invited to various large-scale performances in local and overseas music festivals.

CU Chorus has been actively commissioning new works by Hong Kong composers, so as to develop a unique and local voice in Hong Kong choral music. In 2014, the Chorus released its first commercial album Spring Breeze Kisses My Face — The Choral Music of Jan Tien-hao on The Modern Audio label, to such popular acclaim that it is awarded as one of the Best Sales Releases (Classical and Operatic Works Recording) in the IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award 2014. CU Chorus released their second Album Sing Our Own Song in 2019, promoting Hong Kong Cantonese Choral Music.

Admission:

$220

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Event Details:

There are times people meet and part. Recollection of past memories leaves one at the deserted station named ‘Yesterdays’, waiting for a train that will never come. How can one move on? One is submerged in the sea of memories, wandering with hesitation.

Glorifying love seems to be the privilege among novelists and playwrights, while poets put the grievance of unrequited love in their poetry. In the forthcoming concert I Wish I Knew How to Quit You, CU Chorus will present a programme with choral settings of love poems across different centuries and regions, unfolding a spiritual journey along with the ultimate separation.

Programme

冉天豪：愛情樹

Claude Debussy：Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder!

潘行紫旻：蒲公英

Claudio Monteverdi：Ohimè, se tanto amate

Claudio Monteverdi：Sfogava con le stelle

Claudio Monteverdi：A un giro sol

石青如：世界恬靜落來的時

冉天豪：我有一個戀愛

Claudio Monteverdi：Anima mia, perdona / Che se tu

石青如：墮落天使

Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune (piano solo)