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Chow Fan-fu to give talks in LCSD's Music Appreciation Series
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     Acclaimed arts critic Chow Fan-fu will give lectures under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)'s "Music Appreciation Series 24 and 25: The Transcendence of Love by Human Voice and Orchestra" in October and November.
 
     The lectures are titled “Human Voice and Orchestra” and “Human Voice, Orchestra, Musical and Opera”.
   
     Details of the lectures are as follows:
 
Music Appreciation Series 24: Human Voice and Orchestra

October 12 (Wednesday)
JS Bach’s "St Matthew Passion"
     
October 19 (Wednesday)
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 "Ode to Joy"
 
October 26 (Wednesday)
Verdi’s "Requiem"
 
November 2 (Wednesday)
Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana"
 
Music Appreciation Series 25: "Human Voice, Orchestra, Musical and Opera"
 
November 9 (Wednesday)
Puccini’s "Turandot"
 
November 16 (Wednesday)
Béla Bartók’s "Duke Bluebeard’s Castle"
 
November 23 (Wednesday)
Richard Charles Rodgers’s "The Sound of Music"
 
November 30 (Wednesday)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "The Phantom of the Opera"

     Chow Fan-fu has hosted a variety of classical music and cultural programmes on Radio Television Hong Kong's Radio 4 since 1982. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Chapter of the International Association of Theatre Critics and an examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2011, he was awarded a Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government for his continued and tireless efforts in the promotion of classical music and appreciation of the arts. Publications authored by him include "Music Is Life", which was nominated for "Ten Best Books of 2006", and "Music with Love: The 30th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra", which was listed as one of the "Ten Best Books of 2005".

     All lectures (to be conducted in Cantonese) will be held at 7.30pm at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum. Tickets priced at $50 (for each lecture) are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/music/program_1227.html.
 
Ends/Wednesday, August 31, 2016
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