Rehearsal, Sheung Wan Civic Centre

香港樂齡藝術團主辦繽紛才藝耀香江情深琴聲迎春之排練夜

香港上環文娛中心七樓（排練廳）

Practises made perfect! The thing was that we had been practising for almost 9 months and it was the last practise counted as always. The quality of the video was nothing to shout about, however, it 

captured the idea...

Ave Maria

Non Ti Scordar Di Me

開場

掌聲響起

完場

Mid-Autumn Festival, Happy Valley Leighton Hill Community Hall

樂齡藝術團與香港藍天歌舞團聯合舉辦
預祝中秋節
港島跑馬地區禮頓山社區會堂

We were invited by another chorus group (香港藍天歌舞團) to provide a joint performance in Leighton Hill Community Hall.

The occasion was to celebrate the Mid-autumn festival, which was a traditional festival of East Asian cultural circle folk, originated in ancient China. It fell on the 15th of August in the Lunar Calendar. It was also a traditional festival in South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Okinawa and Thailand.

It was the first time we performed together and it turned out to be a compliment to each other. Our group were more solid in singing and in fact, we all stood there and sung only. The other group looked more into show business than us, they dressed in colourful costume, sung and danced with different combinations. Nevertheless, the audiences were happy to have a free concert!

                 

One day when We Were Young

Celebrating the 20th anniversary, Hong Kong City Hall

Celebrating the 20^th anniversary of The Federation of Alumni Associations of Chinese Colleges and Universities in Hong Kong

迎慶高校聯20週年

香港大會堂音樂廳 

It's our 15 year old birthday, so we decided to celebrate it with a style! Since The Federation of Alumni Associations of of Chinese Colleges and Universities in Hong Kong (中国高等院校香港校友会聯合會) was also 20 years old, so we made it as a big event for both of us. The front and rear stalls were rather full and we all had a wonderful night together. Obviously there were many not so professional and not so polish acts in the show, but on the whole we pulled it through.

We invited a few famous artists to join us that night and I particularly amazed by masters  Zhilin Xie (謝芷琳) and Zhihua Li (李志華). They were both well into their 80s. Master Xie was a singer and with his advanced age, he still could sing a lot better than most of the youngsters. Master Li was playing the accordion and he was also amazing too. They both were very focused and concentrated on and off the stage. I respected them tremendously!

On the whole, we managed to complete the programs with one or two minor hiccups only! Thanks to our group leader Ms. Chen and our conductor Mr. Zheng. Surely, this would be one of the highlights in my singing "career"!

渴望春天

小路

卡秋莎

我的中國心

星星索

黑龍江之波

LSCD HK Flower Show 2016, in Victoria Park

香港花卉展覽在維多利亞公園

The LSCD organised the Flower Show in Victoria Park every year and it was a major event to promote horticulture and the awareness of greening. HK was rather small relative, but the Government had provided many events to promote all sorts of ideas! I just loved this magic island despite people had many complaints about this place.

Since the music and cultural performances were part of the flower show to entertain the visitors of all ages, hence, we were invited to provide the service. I was very happy to have another occasion to sing solo and my singing master helped me to pick this song, 'A Spring of Rose, You Sent to Me', 送我一枝玫瑰花!

Ah..., all very good except the weather. It was ok in the morning, but when our BIG time approached, it rained and rained and more rained. The flower show had two performance halls: one with a cover and one without. Our program was delayed by 90 minutes since all the programs had to be rescheduled under the covered hall.

Apart from having a good time ourselves, this occasion was also important to our singing teacher. She had been working very hard for the last 7 years to promote her book, “Songs from China”. She translated around 30 Chinese famous folk songs into English as well as other languages such as Italian, German and French. Her aim was to introduce Chinese songs to the rest of the world, I admired her spirit. A lot of famous songs were so popular all over the world after hundred of years, might be partly due to many hard working people who translated them into various languages. She loved to do the same for some Chines songs. I wished her all the success and one day, people from all over the world could enjoy the Chinese folk songs.