Musician

Hong Kong busker Dave May has plenty of street cred

10 Mar 2013

Since 1996, Dave May has been on the fiddle in Hong Kong - not that he's doing anything illegal. The Scotsman from Stenhousemuir has been a busker, or street performer, in the city for the past 17...

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Musical pioneer Ravi Shankar dies at age 92

13 Dec 2012

Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, who influenced musicians ranging from The Beatles to violinist Yehudi Menuhin, has died aged 92 in the United States after surgery, his family said yesterday.

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What's On

22 Apr 2006

GAIN CONFIDENCE WITH MAGIC

Veteran magician Harry Wong Cher-hong will give magic workshops today at 2.30pm, 5pm and 8pm, and tomorrow at 11am, 2.30pm and 5pm, at the Hong Kong...

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Pancake rising

15 Sep 2005

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 a...

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Practice makes perfect

1 Jun 2004

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...

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Attitude makes world of difference

13 Mar 2003

'All of you have missed the point,' hissed a man sitting on stage. 'The story is about our team, how we worked together!'

Sighing, I reminded myself that he had good reasons to be...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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What a night

Were you there? If not, then you missed a great night out with some of the finest musical talents in Hong Kong.

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Put to the test

For those veteran musicians of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra who have been asked to undergo an audition when their contracts are about to expire, the test is nothing less than a knife...

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