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1. Practice makes perfect

   Posted Jun 01st 2004, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Human Interest Musician Musician ROGER POPE There is an English proverb that says 'practice makes perfect'. Any musician will tell you how true it is. Leading musicians often say that it has taken them about 10,000 hours of practice to reach the top of their profession. Work out how many hours a day that takes. The same principle applies when learning a language. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/457865/practice-makes-perfect
2. Pancake rising

   Posted Sep 15th 2005, 12:00am by Lee Wing-Sze

   ... Entertainment Choi Musician The Pancakes Musician At last Dejay Choi is playing the music she wants to play - but she would be just as happy working in a library, writes Lee Wing-sze DEJAY CHOI STAGED four concerts at last year's Hong Kong Arts Festival with local independent musicians Chet Lam Yat-fung and Ketchup (aka Ken Tsoi). The sold-out concerts should have been ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/516256/pancake-rising
3. The Best of Fela Kuti

   Posted Aug 15th 2004, 12:00am by Mathew Scott

   ... World Music Musicians Nigerian Musicians Mathew Scott The Best of Fela Kuti - Music is the Weapon Starring: Fela Kuti Directors: Stephane Tchal-Gadjieff and Jean Jacques Flori The film: This 1982 documentary sought to capture the spirit of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musical superstar, inventor of Afro-beat, and possessor of the world's most amazing collection of trousers. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/466614/best-fela-kuti
4. Globetrotting

   Posted Jul 15th 2012, 12:00am

   ... to artists such as Max Ernst, Alexander Calder and Le Corbusier. New York Fela!, the biographical musical about Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti, is returning to Broadway ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/1006782/globetrotting
5. Magazines - 48hrs - HEAR

   A rock star in the classical world

   Posted May 16th 2013, 12:00am by Kylie Knott

   ... The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix at the top of his list. They might seem unusual role models but, then again, Bashmet is not your average musician. In fact, he's way above average, having elevated ...

   http://www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1234683/rock-star-classical-world
6. Attitude makes world of difference

   Posted Mar 13th 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... he could share his hobbies with others. Soon after a profile on a musician I wrote was published, a cheerful young mother called me asking about music lessons for her one-year-old boy. Being ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/409066/attitude-makes-world-difference
7. Blue notes

   Posted Nov 28th 2010, 12:00am by Robin Lynam

   ... is how I wanted to feel and sound.' A parallel career as a fashion designer brought her to Asia and, having settled in Hong Kong, she got to know musicians on the local jazz scene ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/731802/blue-notes
8. Thievery Corporation

   Posted Oct 05th 2008, 12:00am by Mathew Scott

   ... Entertainment World Music Musicians Mathew Scott Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation (Love Da Records) Washington, DC-based production mavens Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have always mixed some powerful medicine. Whether it be tracks worked into others' work - such as Kruder & Dorfmeister - or their own, including 2002's excellent The Richest Man in Babylon. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/655144/thievery-corporation
9. How Philosophy Can Save Your Life

   Posted Dec 06th 2009, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Existentialists World Music Musicians Polyamory Charmaine Chan How Philosophy Can Save Your Life by Marietta McCarty Tarcher, HK$120 As far as self-help books go, How Philosophy Can Change Your Life offers much that should at least distract readers from the grimness of life, although some may achieve the goal: realisation that the good life is theirs for the asking. Rather than ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/700451/how-philosophy-can-save-your-life
10. What's On

    Posted Apr 22nd 2006, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

    ... comedy and music. In the workshop, he teaches participants to enhance their sense of humour, creativity and confidence through playing tricks. Wong is also a musician and has been involved ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/545823/whats

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