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Silent Film New Music: Chaplin & Philip Glass
7*-8 January 2011 (Fri-Sat) 8pm
Drama Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
$180, 150
*With post performance talk
Cinematic Classics & Live Music |  | | | | Programme Details | Four cinematic classics by CHARLIE CHAPLIN
RESTORED to perfect condition by the Chaplin Foundation
Accompanied by FOUR BRAND NEW FILM SCORES
by four of Hong Kong’s hottest composers (performed LIVE)
Plus the Hong Kong premiere of
PHILIP GLASS’ most representative string quartets
A rare and exhilarating union of two modernist masters
A MULTIMEDIA FEAST of old and new that is not to be missed
^To be played in DVD Format
Music
New Film Scores by (Performed LIVE)
George Lam
Aenon Loo
Ng Cheuk-yin
Joyce Tang
Philip Glass
Strings Quartets No. 1*
Strings Quartets No. 2
Strings Quartets No. 3*
* Hong Kong premiere
Video
Chris Cheung
Live Performance
New Quartet
Films^
Silent Films by Charlie Chaplin (Restored Version)
His Musical Career (1914)
In The Park (1915)
Behind The Screen (1916)
Easy Street (1917) | | | | |  | | Composers | George Lam is pursuing a PhD in music composition at Duke University. His recent works explored the intersection of music, words and theatre, including Variations On for chamber ensemble, This Evidence for chamber orchestra and The Gestures Of Farewell for narrator and orchestra, all collaborative projects created with Chicago-based writer Benjamin Rogers. He is currently working on a new documentary opera focusing on the cigarette industry's legacy in Durham, North Carolina, based on collected interviews, oral histories and archival materials.
His music has been performed by Volti, American Opera Projects, Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, AM/PM Saxophone Quartet, Boston University Concert Band, Charles River Wind Ensemble, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Hong Kong Voices and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He was a Schumann Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, as well as an Angus Allnatt Foundation Fellow at the Dartington International Summer School. Other recent fellowships and residencies include American Opera Projects Composers & The Voice workshop series, the Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Composers Institute, and the Volti Choral Arts Laboratory commissioning and residency program. George Lam is co-artistic director of Rhymes With Opera, a new opera company dedicated to creating innovative and emotional contemporary vocal music.
Aenon Loo was born in 1979, received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition and Electronic music at Columbia University in 2008. He works in the field of electro-acoustic improvisation, with acute attention paid to peripheral sounds decaying to, and noises bordering on silence. With his composition Last Days, hommage à Messiaen, he was awarded best composition by the Hong Kong New Generation in 1999 and First prize of the Young Composer Award in Japan by the Asian Composer’s League in 2000. His work has been performed by the Asian Youth Orchestra, Les Six Woodwind Sextet, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble, Radio Kamer Orkest (The Netherlands), Argento Chamber Ensemble (Sydney), Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Manhattan Sinfonietta, and various ensembles in the US, Europe and East Asia. In 2008, Loo launched Gallery EXIT in Hong Kong with a purpose to exhibit progressive and ambitious works of contemporary art in all media that seek to go beyond the boundaries of nationality and discipline.
Ng Cheuk-yin is a renowned composer, arranger and performer who writes for Chinese and Western instruments. He received a Post-graduate Degree from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s first Artist Associate (2006–2008) and is a member of a cappella group The Gay Singers and the founder of the crossover group SIU2. In 2009, Yin received the Best Serious Composition in CASH Golden Sail Music Awards for a theatrical choral concert Rock Hard. And this work was performed as the opening show of Hong Kong’s cultural programme in Shanghai EXPO 2010. Listed among TimeOut HK Magazine’s Top 20 Musicians 2008, he also won the 2008 Canto-pop Top 10 from Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation by Commercial Radio, the Best Broadcast Rate Award by MetroRadio Broadcast and the 31st Top 10 Canton Pop Award by Radio Television Hong Kong for his work Under the Sakura Tree which was composed for Pop Singer Hins Cheung in 2008.
Yin’s works range from chamber and orchestral works to electronic music; from rock music to musicals; from choral works to pop songs and music for crossover bands and ensembles. He has collaborated with various groups and Hong Kong pop singers. His works have been performing by different groups all over the world. Yin’s major orchestral works include White for 2004 Saint-Riquier Festival and the Les Flâneries Musicales d'Été de Reims in France/Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Journey for Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra & Four Gig Heads, Fly for 2007 Hong Kong Arts Festival/Hong Kong Sinfonietta, etc. Other works include the theme song Singing Voices of the World for the Global Outstanding Children and Youth Chinese Singing Festival; Jolly Mcdull on the Ferry, Pearl of the Orient Overture and Moving to City Tempo in the Grand Variety Show in Celebration of 10th Anniversary of the Reunification; music for Hong Kong – Equestrian Capital commissioned for the opening ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics; the Musical and Theme Song A Tale from the Magical Beanland for Hong Kong Children's Choir; Sheng It Up for 2008 Hong Kong Arts Festival; Laughing Mama of the Actor's Family for The International Arts Carnival in 2009, etc.
Joyce Wai-chung Tang was born in Hong Kong. She obtained Master’s degrees in both Composition and Electro-acoustic music at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She graduated with a PhD in Musicology at the University of Hong Kong. Her compositions have been performed throughout Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Many of her works have also been jury-selected for performance in major contemporary music festivals/conferences, such as the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) World Music Days in United Kingdom and Hong Kong, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Hong Kong, Michigan and Beijing, Journées d’Informatique Musicale (JIM) in Paris, Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Nashville, USA, the Asian Composers’ League Contemporary Music Festivals in Seoul, the International Alliance for Women in Music Conference in Beijing, North/South Consonance 2010 concert season in New York, as well as the Musicarama Festivals in Hong Kong. She has received commissions by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Arts Festival, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Composers’Guild.
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His Musical Career (1914)
Charlie is hired as an assistant piano mover and has to deliver one piano and collect another – one to 666 Prospect Street the other to 999 with the inevitable confusion. Charlie and Mack deliver one piano to the wrong house with Charlie carrying the piano around the room on his back while the customers admire the effect in various locations. He is, cartoon-like, unable to straighten up again. They try to remove a piano from another house and, pursued by the owner, they slide down the road and into a lake.
In The Park (1915)
A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. Charlie rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn't protect her in the first place. The boyfriend goes to throw himself in the lake in despair.
Behind The Screen (1916)
Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie goes on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie-throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio.
Easy Street (1917)
Easy Street is Chaplin's parody of Progressive reformers, whom Chaplin saw as prudish, intrusive and elitist. The tramp wanders into a church after hearing a hymn. After worship, he is saved by the preacher and the piano player, Edna. He even puts back the collection box he had taken. Now reformed, he joins the police force and is assigned to Easy Street, where a particularly large bully rules the neighborhood.
| | | | | | | Details of Arts Group | Contemporary Musiking (CM)
Today's Platform for Contemporary Music
Artistic Director: Samson Young
Founded in 2007, is a Hong Kong-based arts organization that is solely devoted to the promotion and creation of contemporary music and experimental music. Since its inception, CM has impressed local and overseas audiences with its fresh programming and experimental productions that merge contemporary music with technology and emergent media. Past productions include Electric Requiem: God Save the Queen, in collaboration with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong and the award-winning actress Helena Law Lan; Hong Kong Explode, a multimedia rendition of Bach's classic Two Part Invention, re-arranged for New York's DITHER electric guitar quartet; Box of Revelation, a unique performance of Messiaen's epic Quartet for the End of Time that is housed inside of a Facebook-inspired interactive installation, staged by members of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta; and the Hong Kong premiere of Brian Eno’s ambient music classic Music for Airports.
CM believes in contemporary music as a relevant performing art form, and sees the desperate need for a forward-looking platform for musical experiments in Hong Kong. CM regularly invites overseas musicians to collaborate with local composers. In addition, through its strategic partnership with arts organizations across genres, CM provides a cross-disciplinary, multi-media platform for composers to experiment, explore and expand.
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