COLLA VOCE 2019 喜粵 !

Hong Kong Baptist University Choir 香港浸會大學合唱團

Hong Kong Baptist University Women’s Chorus 香港浸會大學女聲合唱團

Cantoría Hong Kong 香港浸會大學室樂合唱團

Featuring The Hong Kong Children’s Choir 特別演出 香港兒童合唱團

[hei2] [jyut6] 喜粵 v. to enjoy n. short for A concert presenting all-Cantonese works, including new commissions set to texts by classical and modern poets. 全粵語演唱，包括以古典及當代詩詞 為主題之全新委約作品。

CONCERT HALL, Hong Kong Cultural Centre 08 香港文化中心音樂廳 APR MON | 8:00 PM 2019 4月 I 也許 * 曲 : 陳啟揚 Maybe You Have Grown Weary of Crying* Music: CHAN Kai-Young 詞 : 聞一多 (1899-1946) Text: WEN Yiduo

慈母手中線 * 曲 : 何崇志 As the Kind Mother Sews* Music: Steve HO 詞 : 何崇志 / 李白 (701-762)/ 孟交 (751-814) Text: Steve HO/LI Bai/MENG Jiao

錯過 * 曲 : 許家臻 Passed Opportunity* Music: Ernest HUI

詞 : 葉曉昇 PROGRAMME Text: Heusen YIP

MANG Tip, Piano Hong Kong Baptist University Women’s Chorus

Po Kwan LAW, Conductor

II

浣溪沙 ·漁父* 曲 : 陳啟揚 Egrets Flying Around the Xisai Mountain* Music: CHAN Kai-Young 詞 : 張志和 (ca. 732-774)/ 蘇軾 (1037-1101) Text: ZHANG Zhihe/SU

月光光 照地堂 曲 : 喬飛 (1925-2011) Shimmering Moon Music: CHIAO Fei 編 : 許家臻 Arranged by: Ernest HUI 詞 : 潘琳 Text: PAN Lin

天外有天 * 曲、詞 : 何崇志 House Rules Beyond the Sky* Music & Text: Steve HO

Dear Patrons, HO Cheuk Hei, Piano In order to make this performance a pleasant experience for the artists and SHIU Wing On Michael, Piano other members of the audience, please refrain from recording, filming, taking Hong Kong Baptist University Choir photographs, and also from smoking, eating or drinking in the auditorium. Please ensure that your mobile phones and any other sound and light emitting Dominic LAM, Conductor devices are switched off before the performance. Please reserve your applause until the end of the entire work. Thank you for your kind co-operation. III 場地規則 豆芽國 曲 : 伍卓賢 Magical Beanland Music: NG Cheuk-Yin 各位觀眾： 詞 : 游思行 為了令大家對今次演出留下美好印象，我們希望各位切勿在場 Text: YOU See Hand 內攝影、錄音或錄影，亦請勿吸煙或飲食。在節目進行前，請 關掉手提電話、其他響鬧及發光的裝置。請留待整首樂曲完結 如果可以 * 曲 : 譚樂希 後才報以掌聲鼓勵。多謝各位合作。 If Possible* Music: TAM Lok-Hei Alvin 詞 : 陳虹妤 Text: CHAN Hungyu 粵語譯本 : 劉盼迎 Cantonese Transliteration: Peony LAU 功夫 曲、詞 : 何崇志 Kung Music & Text: Steve HO

LIN Ching, Piano The Hong Kong Children’s Choir

Dominic LAM, Conductor

Intermission

IV

辛詞四季 * 曲 : 陳慶恩 I. 春 - 青玉案·元夕 詞 : 辛棄疾 (1140-1207) II. 夏 - 西江月·夜行黃沙道中 III. 秋 - 採桑子·書博山道中壁 IV. 冬 - 賀新郎·把酒長亭說 John WINZENBURG MEET THE ARTISTS A Poet’s Four Seasons* Music: CHAN Hing-Yan Conductor I. Spring - The Lantern Festival Text: Xin Qiji II. Summer - A Midsummer Night’s Walk III. Autumn - Of Grief and Autumn John Winzenburg is an associate professor of music at Hong Kong Baptist University, IV. Winter - Yearning in the Midst of Snow where he conducts the Cantoría Hong Kong. He and the Cantoría earned a Gold Medal at the Czech 2010 Festival of Songs Olomouc, and they presented a Weekend Concert Kenneth SHAM, Dizi/Xiao at the Concert Hall, National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing in 2012. Winzenburg LOO Sze-Wang, Sheng performed as Choral Director of the premiere of “Hong Kong Odyssey” at the 2017 Mavis LAM, Pipa Hong Kong Arts Festival and served as Chorus Master of “The Suppliant Women” in WONG Chi-Chung, Erhu collaboration with the Actors Touring Company (UK) and the Royal Lyceum Theatre HO Yi-On, Percussion Edinburgh at the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Festival. He has appeared regularly in vocal and Cantoría Hong Kong instrumental performances with the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. Since 2015, he has conducted the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the Choir of Royal Holloway, John WINZENBURG, Conductor and he has appeared on the BBC Radio 3 programme In Tune. He has also collaborated with the National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain and the King’s Voices at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University. He has recently been active as clinician, V presenter, and adjudicator at international choral events in Argentina, Hong Kong, Korea, the U.S., and Singapore. Winzenburg has premiered a number of noteworthy 也斯說 * 曲 : 葉浩堃 works, including the U.S. premiere of “Karura” by Japanese composer Akira Nishimura I. 白日 詞 : 也斯 (1949-2013) with renowned oboist Thomas Indermühle, “Aurora” by Joyce Tang (Ablaze Records II. 未昇 Millenium Masters series), the cantata “Anesti” by James Boznos, and new compositions III. 舊市空間 for Indonesian gamelan, percussion, and piano with the Hong Kong University Gamelan Ensemble. Scholastically, Winzenburg’s international publications include Journal of Says Yasi* Music: Austin YIP Musicological Research, Perspectives of New Music, Palgrave Macmillan, The University I. White Sun Text: Yasi of Michigan Press, Twentieth-Century , Asian Music, CHIME, and the Journal of II. Rise Not the Central Conservatory of Music. Winzenburg is the editor of the new Edition Peters III. Old City Space anthology Half Moon Rising: Choral Music from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. TSE Man Kiu, Piano Hong Kong Baptist University Women’s Chorus Hong Kong Baptist University Choir Cantoría Hong Kong

Po Kwan LAW, Conductor

* 世界首演 World Premiere Dominic LAM Conductor

Po Kwan LAW MEET THE ARTISTS Conductor Dominic Lam is currently an active choral conductor in Hong Kong, working closely with choirs of various musical backgrounds and interests. Lam is currently a part-time lecturer in the Department of Music of the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and the A pianist and conductor born in Hong Kong, Po Kwan Law received her Doctor of Musical conductor of the HKBU Choir, performing regularly in HKBU music department’s choral Arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, concert series. Under his preparation, the choir performed Beethoven’s “Symphony where she was the recipient of the Schuetz H. Warren Memorial Scholarship for No. 9” under the baton of Prof. Johnny M Poon. As a conductor and pianist of The Hong conducting and teaching excellence. She holds a Bachelor degree in piano performance Kong Children’s Choir (HKCC), Lam has toured to China, Portugal, Australia, Estonia and from the Oberlin Conservatory, and Master degrees in choral conducting, piano Finland with the group, performing in concerts and leading open rehearsals. He has performance and orchestral conducting, from Oberlin Conservatory, San Francisco premiered various works written for HKCC by Dr. Steve Ho, including “Kung Fu” and Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign respectively. “I just want to sing”, the 50th anniversary theme song of HKCC. Lam worked with the Her piano and conducting mentors include Chester Alwes, Monique Duphil, Hugh renowned conductor Lan Shui by preparing HKCC to perform in 2019 Hong Kong Arts Floyd, Mack McCray, Donald Schleicher, Fred Stoltzfus, and Yip Wai Hong. She has Festival’s production of contemporary opera Madame White Snake written by Pulitzer been invited to participate in the Masterclasses of conducting in the United States and Prize winner Zhou Long. Lam concurrently works with the SingFest Choral Academy Europe, where she was inspired by artists like Michael Tilson Thomas, Simon Carrington, (SFCA) as conductor and has led the group in performing a wide range of repertoire: Kurt Masur, Ann-Howard Jones, William Weinert, Edwardo Diazmunoz, Brian O’Connell, from Bach’s cantatas and motets, Monteverdi’s madrigals, to choral settings of spirituals Marika Kuzma and Dennis Keene. and contemporary Asian choral works. Under his preparation, SFCA performed Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beata Vergine” under the baton of Wolfgang Katschner. Law has been a sought after guest conductor, adjudicator, choral and orchestral clinician. Her guest conducting engagements included Oberlin College Choir, Oberlin In addition to his regular choral engagements, Lam has also been invited as guest Musical Union, San Francisco Conservatory Baroque Ensemble, Illini String Orchestra, in choral workshops and projects both locally and internationally, including his University of Illinois Philharmonia, Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning tenor Paul Phoenix in leading the first Orchestra and Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra. She has taught International Boswil Choral Summer Academy in summer 2018. Lam was one of the undergraduate conducting classes at the University of Illinois, and she was the resident authors of “Teaching Music through Performance in Choir Volume 4” published by GIA conductor of the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra. Recently, Law worked with Publications, Inc. of the United States. Lam holds a Master of Music degree in Choral the Asian Youth Orchestra Chorus and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus Conducting at Westminster Choir College, USA, where he studied conducting with as the rehearsal conductor. Law is currently a full time lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist the Grammy-nominated Dr. James Jordan, Dr. Joe Miller, Dr. Amanda Quist, and voice University and conductor of the HKBU Women’s Chorus. with Dr. Christopher Arneson. As a baritone of the critically acclaimed Westminster Symphonic Choir, Westminster Choir and Westminster Kantorei, he has performed with world-leading orchestras like the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of world-renowned conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alan Gilbert, Vladimir Jurowski and Daniele Gatti. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he studied piano, organ and voice under Dr. Mary Wu, Ms. Wong Kin Yu and Mr. Apollo Wong respectively. Chan Hing-Yan is currently James Chen and Yuen-Han Chan Professor in Music at the University of Hong Kong. Lauded for their subtle mediation between Chinese elements and Western idioms, Chan’s compositions have been heard around the world at prestigious festivals. Recent works include three chamber operas (2018, 2015, 2013). The first two were commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, who also entrusted Chan as the composer and Music Director of an extravaganza staged cantata to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover in 2017. Chan served as Artist Associate Steve HO CHAN Hing-Yan 2016-18 of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Over the years, Composer Composer the orchestra has commissioned and presented his works at home and abroad in Europe (2005), South America Dr. Steve Ho is a multi-award-winning composer. His awards include the 21st Hong Kong (2010), Canada and New York (2012), Taiwan (2016), Beijing (2010), and Shanghai (2007). Film Award for his soundtrack My Life as Mcdull and the CASH’s 2005 Golden Sail Award MEET THE ARTISTS Chan received the “Best Artist Award (Music)” at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in the ‘most widely performed serious music’ category. A lyricist and a composer, Dr. Ho’s in 2013. His three collaborations with the City Contemporary Dance Company (2009, 2007, passion is to write Cantonese choral music. His “In One Accord” was chosen as the theme 2005) won him much acclaim as well as a Hong Kong Dance Award in 2008, when he also song for 2018 One Belt One Road World Choral Festival. Dr. Ho is currently an assistant received commendation for “Persons with Outstanding Contributions to the Development professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at the Education University of of Arts and Culture” in the Secretary for Home Affairs’ Commendation Scheme. Hong Kong and an adjunct professor at the South China Normal University.

CHAN Kai-Young Composer A composer-arranger born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan Kai-Young often assimilates various Asian cultural Ernest Hui is dedicated to exploring novel possibilities traditions into his music, and he is particularly drawn to in Cantonese textual settings. His music has been keenly the musicality of expressed through performed locally and in Australia, China, Germany, the tonal Cantonese language. His music is performed the Netherlands, the United Kingdom. “Shimmering in various continents by the Pittsburgh Symphony Moon”, showcasing tonight, received joint-second place Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic at the Boswil Choral Summer Academy Composition Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, PRISM Quartet, Daedalus Quartet, and Mivos Quartet, Competition. Hui studied voice with Ms Chan Siu Kwan, among other prominent performers. His selected works are released on Ablaze Records, and read music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. PARMA Recordings, and Innova Recordings, and scores of his works are published by As a scholarship awardee, he completed his Master of Edition Peters (London), Central Conservatory of Music Press (Beijing), and Hong Kong Music (Composition) under the tutelage of Professor Chan Children’s Choir. Kai-Young is part of the first artist delegation of the American Composers Ernest HUI Wai Kwong Victor. His music was published in the CUHK Forum to the Havana Festival for Contemporary Music in Cuba, a historic tour documented Composer Music Department’s 50th Anniversary Celebration CD “Ad by the National Public Radio. His music is also presented on such international stages as Excellentiam”. Ernest Hui collaborated with Heusen Yip ISCM World Music Days, International Rostrum of Composers, June in Buffalo, Valencia in their musical production “Purple Summer” in 2009 (arrangement / book and directing), International Performance Academy and Festival, Internationalen Ferienkurse Darmstadt, and a cappella-theatre “Twisted Fate” in 2013 (music / lyrics). Hui has also worked with among others. After completing his Ph.D. in Music Composition with the Benjamin Franklin musicians of differing genres, notably: Die Konzertisten, the Hong Kong New Music Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Jay Reise, James Ensemble, the Pelicans, the Yat Po Singers, Chet Lam, Paul Phoenix and Tomy Wai. Ernest Primosch, and Anna Weesner, he joined the composition faculty at the Chinese University Hui was the Music Director of the Children’s Choir, and now teaches of Hong Kong. a cappella and choral music at various institutes, including the Hong Kong Children’s Choir and Vocal Asia. NG Cheuk-Yin is a composer, music producer and A Austin YIP cappella artist. Yin is Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s first Artist Composer Associate, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s first resident composer, music director of the fusion band Award winning composer Austin Yip’s works have been SIU2 and the co-artistic director of the A cappella theatre performed worldwide. Recently collaborations and awards company Yat Po Singers. After receiving a post-graduate include “Eurydice”, an hour-long videodance collaboration with degree from the Music Department of the Chinese Centre de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, France; “Metamorphosis”, University of Hong Kong, he went on to study Japanese winner of the CASH Golden Sail Award in 2017, commissioned at the International Christian University in Tokyo and and performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra; and Jazz Music at Codarts in the Netherlands. In 2012 Yin “Road Business”, a marimba concerto for Jack Van Geem, former Principal Percussionist of received Award for Best Artist from the Hong Kong Arts the San Francisco Symphony. His works are published by Donemus (Netherlands). He is Development Council. In 2009 and 2013, Yin received NG Cheuk-Yin currently a lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University. the Best Serious Composition in CASH Golden Sail Music Composer Awards by the theatrical choral concert Rock Hard and double sheng concerto Before the City Collapses respectively. In the next year his choral MEET THE ARTISTS work Singing Voices of the world was awarded the CASH most performed work award 2013 (serious music). Yin’s choral works include Huxi, Singing Voices of the world, Spring Diary, Love of Music, and A Tale from the Magical Beanland. His theatrical A cappella works for Yat Po Singers include Rock Hard, Requiem HK and This Victoria has No Secrets. HO Yi-On Percussionist

As a graduate of the HKAPA and a freelance percussionist, Ho has collaborated with many art groups including Zuni Icosahedron, the Hong Kong Dance Company, City Contemporary Dance Company. She was also one of the As a Hong Kong born composer, Tam’s music is greatly founding members of Four Gig Heads Percussion Group. influenced by Chinese philosophy and literature. These influences are revealed in his music through the unique choice of pitches and spatial arrangements. Over years, Tam has developed his own musical style that re-interpret traditional melody, harmony, and musical structure in other more creative ways. Tam’s works have been performed mainly in Hong Kong and the United States. Besides receiving commissions from soloists and ensembles in universities, he has also worked Mavis LAM with different performance groups, such as JACK Pipa player TAM Lok-Hei, Alvin Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, Hong Kong Children’s Composer Choir, Manhattan Symphonie, and Hong Kong Mavis Lam started learning the Pipa at the age of ten and Philharmonic Orchestra. Tam’s compositions do not graduated at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing only label him as a concert composer. As a member in EigenTunes, a production team that Arts. Lam was invited by the former Regional Council to receives commissions from various TV dramas, commercial ads., and game music in China, perform in the first “Young Soloist Series” recitals during he enjoys reaching out to another audience group with a totally different musical approach. high school. She won the China Pipa Competition – Tam is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in composition at Jacobs School of Music, Outstanding Award (Professional Group) after her graduation from HKAPA. Indiana University. Lam is actively involved in Wuji Ensemble’s current three-year project of “Atmospheric Music Theatre”. Her recent main performances include “Reveries of The Red Chamber” & Mindful Theatre “Vipassana” by the Hong Kong Dance Company, the Dance Drama “The Peach Blossom Fan” directed by Tang Shu-Wing, Miu Chuk-Yin and Xing Liang in Nanjing, and Kuhmo Music Festival Finland. LIN Ching Kenneth SHAM Pianist Dizi player

Lin Ching was educated at the music department of Hong Kong native Dizi player Kenneth Sham received Chinese University of Hong Kong and studied piano early training under the supervision from Mr. Wong performance with Prof David Gwilt. After graduation, she Shek-on as well as many experienced musicians. Being was awarded a scholarship to pursue a Music Master’s a frequent winner in the Hong Kong Schools Music Degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK. Festival, he was awarded first place prizes for Dizi and She participated in the Kirishima International Music Festival in Japan and studied Dongxiao Solo categories from the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. Sham graduated MEET THE ARTISTS piano performance with the German pianist Amadeus Webersinke. Lin has taught piano from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Dizi Performance, under the performance, piano pedagogy, music theory and aural training in several music institutions supervision by Mr. Sun Yong-zhi, the Dizi Principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. such as HKAPA. She is now the pianist of the Concert Choir of HKCC. She performed with Currently, Sham actively performs in different music organizations including the Music the choir in Hungary, Austria, Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK, Japan, Korea and mainland Office Instructors' Ensembles and as freelance musician with the Hong Kong Chinese China in the past few years. Orchestra. He had also been invited by Mr. Tang Shu-wing, to perform live accompaniment for performances, and subsequent overseas visits to Taiwan and Europe, by the Tang Shu- wing Theatre Studio (formerly No Man’s Land).

LOO Sze-Wang WONG Chi-Chung Sheng player Huqin player

Loo Sze-wang is a renowned sheng player in Hong Kong. WONG Chi-Chung studied Chinese Huqin Performance An active figure on the music scene as both a soloist and and Western Orchestral Conducting with Mr. TONG a chamber musician. Loo has performed with different Leung-Tak and Ms. YIP Wing-Sie respectively. He received performing groups around the world. He has also the Advanced Diploma, Professional Diploma, B.A. premiered several sheng concertos by famous composers and M.A. degrees from the Hong Kong Academy for like Lam Bun-Ching and Chan Hing-Yan. Loo was the Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Artist-in-Residence of the Cornell University in New York and the Artist Associate of the successively. WONG has performed in many places such as Italy, France, Australia, U.S. Hong Kong Sinfonietta. His recent performances include the operas, The Heart of Coral and and Poland. He is also an active performer in Hong Kong, and has participated in many Ghost Love, by Chan Hing-Yan; and the atmospheric music theatre shows, When Petals Fall local performances and recordings including the “Local Composers’ Works Concert” and in Serenity and Beyond the Senses, by Law Wing-Fai. the “International Contemporary Music Festival - Musicarama”. He was also invited by the Radio Television Hong Kong to have solo recitals. WONG joined the Chinese Music Virtuosi in 1997 and participated in numerous concerts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Le French May, Musicus Fest and Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. He is now a part-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Soprano I Soprano II Alto

AU Wing Lam Lavin CHAN Lok Yung CHAN Ting On CHEUNG Bo Kee CHAN Oi Yuet CHEN Wanyi CHEUNG Sau Ying CHENG Man Hei CHEUNG Hiu Tung Yuki ENSEMBLES CHU Ho Lam CHEUNG Hoi Ching CHEUNG Ying FONG Wing Yi CHEUNG Ying Ying KO Yuen Wa HO Ching Ting CHU Hoi Kei Constance Katie KOON Wing Sze LAM Ka Wai FAN Vicki LAM Ka Man LAM Wing Kiu FONG Hoi Kei LEE Hiu Yan LAU Yin Kwan GAW Choi Ki LEE Hiu Yi Joyce LI Manon Floriane Ho Yee HAU Sin Ting LEUNG Lok Tung LO Hiu Ching HUI Hoi Ting LUI Hiu Ching MA Sin Yu HUNG Chuen Ni LUI Wing Ying NG Miu Ching KWOK Tsz Ching MANG Tip NG Wai Man LAU On Ting NGAN Hoi Ting TAM Cho Yi LEE Chun Ming TANG Wun Ting TAM Wai Yan LEE Pui Lok Candice TONG Wing Ki TSANG Sze Wing LEE Tin Wai TSE Ting WONG Hoi Yan LEE Yuen Chi TSOI Yee Lam WONG Tsz Yan LI Wing To TSUI Ching Lam YAU Sheung Yi Sharon RAN Ziyue WAN Chi Ying Janny YEUNG Sin Wun Agatha SAT Wing Hei WONG Cheuk Yan Hong Kong Baptist University Women’s Chorus TAM Ka Yuet Kylie WONG Wing Man TANG Lok In XIE Shuyi Sury Founded in 2010, the Hong Kong Baptist University Women’s Chorus performs a wide range of TO Angelus Tsz Yan YAM Yee Lai repertoire including traditional women’s literature, contemporary works, world folk literature, TSE Man Kiu YEUNG Chi Yan Youngchi gospel music and more. The ensemble’s goal is to provide opportunities for women of different WANG Jing Yi Meryl YU Cheuk Man singing skills to develop their music capabilities in various aspects, such as performance practice, WONG Ching Pui vocal techniques, language, and musicianship. WU Sze Hang YAN Yuen Ling These eighty plus voices consist of music majors from HKBU ADMS, BMS and BA programmes, as YUEN Cho Mei well as some non-music majors from the campus. The chorus is currently under the direction of YUEN Wing Sze Dr. Law Po Kwan.

The choir recently performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in November 2016 jointly with the HKBU choral ensembles and BU Symphony Orchestra under the directorship of Prof. Johnny Poon for the HKBU 60th Anniversary Gala Concert. Other past BUWC performances include ADMS Horizon Concert 2012, Holiday Concert & Carols ensemble 2012, ADMS Horizon Concert 2013, Women’s Chorus Concert 2013, Rejoice- Women’s Chorus Christmas Concert 2013, Sound of the Season- Women’s Chorus Christmas Concert 2014, Holiday Choral Concert 2015, 2017 & 2018, and the series of HKBU “Colla Voce” choral concerts from 2014-2018.

Ensemble assistant: HAU Yu Kin Soprano Alto Tenor

CHAN Cheuk Yin Florence CHAN Hiu Tung CHAN Cheuk Kiu CHAN Wing Yee CHAN Wing Sze CHAN Chun Hin CHAN Yan Yi Crystal CHEUNG Cheuk Hei CHAN Kwan Ho CHAU Jess CHONG Wing Lam CHAN Long Hei Elvis CHENG I Man CHOW Briony CHAN Tat Yuen CHIANG Ka Li* CHOW Siu Tung CHOW Ching Kit FUNG Lai Ting CHUNG Wing Yan FONG Ho Man Jonathan ENSEMBLES FUNG Mei Yu FU Chi Ming HA Chung Hang KEUNG Wing Chi HO Merry HAU Yu Kin KWAN Wing Man Natalie HO Wan Chi HO Cheuk Hei LEE Cho Man JIM Hiu Ting Alice HO Ding Yeung LEUNG Choi Yin KURNIAWAN Lauryn Vania KWAN Siu Ming LI Danielle M. K. LAM Hoi Yan KWOK Chun Wah LO Tsz Yui* LAM Tsz Ki KWOK Pak Hei LUI Tsz Ching LAM Wan Ki LAM Yu Him Ian NG Mo Yin LAW Shuk Ki LEUNG Ching Long Colin NG Yu Sze Melody LEUNG Ching Lam NINGRU Sut Seng Du SHAM Yee Lam PONG Hoi Ki Nancy SHIU Wing On Michael TSANG Cheuk Lam Chalene POON Ching Hang SZETO Tsz Hei TSE Cheuk Yin Jasmine SHIU Yi Kei TAM Cing Jie WONG Abbie SO Man Ling TSE Long Sing WONG Hiu Ching TSANG Ka Li TSUI Ka Ho WONG Ting Wai TSANG Siu Kiu Katherine WONG Cheuk Nok WONG Tung Yan TSE Po Ling WONG Chun Man WONG Ying Ting TSUI Wing Man WONG Jaxon Hong Kong Baptist University Choir YAN Ka Yiu WONG Sau In WONG Kin Long YAU Chuen Heung Ann WONG Tsz Yau WONG Kin Nam The Hong Kong Baptist University Choir (BUC) was founded in 1973 to develop skills in large- YEUNG Wing Sze YIP Hiu Yi WONG Sau Chi ensemble music and to provide opportunities for the study and performance of fine choral YIP Tsz Ching Bonnie YU Oi Ling literature. The choir currently numbers over 100 students, staff, and alumni of the university. The BU Choir has frequently collaborated with Hong Kong-based orchestras, including the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, and Hong Kong Baptist University orchestras in performances of major choral-orchestral works. It presented the Mozart Requiem, Bass the Beethoven Mass in C, Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, John Rutter’s Gloria, Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata, and Antonio Vivaldi’s Magnificat. The choir performed Beethoven’s CHAN Wai Man LEUNG Tik Man Symphony No. 9 in November 2016 jointly with the HKBU choral ensembles and BU Symphony CHAN Yik Heng Eason NG Siu Chuen Orchestra under the directorship of Prof. Johnny Poon for the HKBU 60th Anniversary Gala CHEUNG King To Toby POON Ka Hei Joshua Concert. CHIU Ho Chung SHIU Wai Yau CHOI Yu Hin TAM Chin Wah In addition to the choral-orchestral canon, the BUC is branching out into newer choral sounds CHOW Tsz Hin TO Kin Tak Keith from around the world, where various traditions are represented from Asia, South America, FUNG Si Ho WANG Ming Hong Africa, and Eastern Europe. The choir’s activities have covered a wide range to include on-campus IP Man Sum WONG Ho Pang offerings, performances at major Hong Kong concert venues, community outreach concerts, KO Yat Long* WONG Ka Tsun international festivals in Europe, and tours to Australia and Taiwan. In recent years, the BUC has LAM Henry WONG Kin Ho performed at different concert series of the HKBU Department of Music, including “Musical LAM Tsz Kin WONG Kwun Hang Collage” in 2012-2014, “Holiday Choral Concert” in 2015, 2017 & 2018, and “Colla Voce” in LAU King Chung WONG Lap Boon Peter 2014-2018. It also presented Community Outreach Concerts at St. Andrew’s Church in 2012 and LAW Kai Ho Savio WONG Yan Shun Joseph St. John’s Cathedral in 2013. Its recordings were included on the Edition Peters Half Moon Rising LEUNG Kevin Hoi Chun YIP Hei Long website and sample CD. LEUNG Sheung Hang YUNG Ka Hei

*Rehearsal pianist Ensemble assistant: MA Lok Man Soprano-Alto

ANG Min Wei CHAN KA Wing CHAN Wing Yan CHAU Hoi Lee ENSEMBLES CHEUNG Ka Hei Sabrina CHU Shuk Man LAM Ngo Ka Lam Yuet Kay LAU Cheuk Ying LEUNG Wai In LI Jess LO Wai Man SHIU Yi Kei TSANG Chiu In WONG Yi Ching Ariel WU Wing Shan Sandy Cantoría Hong Kong

The Cantoría Hong Kong is a mixed chamber choir of select students from the HKBU Department Tenor-Bass of Music. “Cantoría” is an old Spanish word meaning “choir,” but it is especially appropriate for the Baptist University setting, since it highlights the multiple languages and cultures CHENG Tin Heng Omarr experienced in the Hong Kong landscape. The group was established in September 2009 and CHEUNG Pak Sang traveled to the Czech Republic in June of the following year to participate in the 2010 Festival CHOI Dickson of Songs Olomouc, where it was awarded a Gold Medal in the category for chamber choirs. It KAM Ka Yiu has performed concerts in Tianjin, Beijing, Shenzhen, Taipei, and Kaohsiung, including a feature LAM Lok concert at the main Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing in 2012. LAM Yi Lok Daniel It has hosted five Chamber Choir Showcase events with guest choirs and artists at Hong Kong LEE Ka Lun City Hall Concert Hall since April 2011. It recently collaborated with the acclaimed Philippine LEE Pak Man Madrigal Singers and The 24 from the University of York, as well renowned conductor Chen Yun SHUM Chun Hei Hung, conductor/composers Ko Matsushita and Ben Parry, and countertenor Robin Tyson (King’s TAM Brian Singers). TANG Tsz Ngo Geoffrey TSANG Lok Ki The ensemble was featured on RTHK Radio 4 “University Voices” in 2013 and on RTHK TV Arts TSE Kai Tik Declan On Air: World Youth & Children’s Choir Festival 2015. It was awarded the WYCCF-Jebsen Choral YAN Zijie Arts Youth Scholarship in recognition of its contribution to Hong Kong choral music in 2015. The Cantoría was also featured on the 2015 Edition Peters CD and website Half Moon Rising: Choral Music from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. In June 2016, the choir successfully completed its United Kingdom Tour, where it performed at King’s College Chapel of Cambridge University, the Chapel of Royal Holloway University of London, the Gresham Centre, and on the BBC Radio 3 programme In Tune. It then performed a joint concert with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain during the NYCGB tour in Hong Kong in August 2016, which was aired on RTHK Radio 4 in Fall 2016. In February 2017, the Cantoría performed as the featured choir for the newly composed “Hong Kong Odyssey,” which was premiered at Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall as part of the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Festival. The group then performed a leading role for the production of “The Suppliant Women” by Aeschylus in March 2018 at the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Festival in collaboration with the Actors Touring Company (UK) and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. The Cantoría collaborated with the national New Zealand Secondary Students Choir and Wah Yan College Kowloon in a joint concert in July 2018, which was later aired on RTHK Radio 4. AU I Shan MA Lorraine AU YEUNG Hei Yuen MA Yat Hang Lukas CHAN Cheuk Yee Chloe MAK Tin Sum Gabriel ENSEMBLES CHAN Helen NG Pak Ching CHAN Hui Ka Celine NG Yuet CHAN Rachel PANG Tsz Long CHAN Wing Hei SHEN Kwan Yu CHENG Hok Sze Eleanor SO Siu Ling Dorothy CHENG Noel TAM Hiu Ching CHENG Yung Wing TAM Ho Yin CHEUK Yee Lam TAM Yee Ching The Hong Kong Children’s Choir CHEUNG Ting Hin TANG Tsz Chun CHIU Yuet Yin TANG Yuk Ting Music Director/Principal Conductor: Kathy FOK CHOI Kelsey TSANG Tsz Wun Erin CHOW Yat Ching TSE Nga Man The Hong Kong Children’s Choir (HKCC) was founded in 1969 as the first children’s choir in Hong Kong. HKCC is CHUI Tsz Tou WAI Katarina Chiu Shuen a registered non-profit-making charitable organization and has made tremendous contributions for children’s CHUNG Nadia Enhao WONG Hei Chit arts training in Hong Kong. It is now the biggest choir in the world with over 5,000 members and has grown into CHUNG Yung Denise WONG Ho Ching a diversified arts organization for children. HAU Timothy WONG Kiu Chun HO Pui Ching WONG Kwan Long Anson HKCC is invited to perform overseas each year, spreading the message of love and peace in different parts of the IP Ching WONG Lok Ni Ronny world. The Choir has been well received and appreciated in many countries, gaining an international reputation LAM Suet Wing WONG Shing Ho as the “Little Goodwill Singing Ambassadors” and “one of the best children’s choirs in the world”. HKCC was LAM Yat Yin WONG Suet Wing named “China’s Top Ten Children Chorus” in 2003 and won the prestigious “Award of the Audience” at the “Vivace LAU Yin Tung WONG Sum Yim 2006 International Choir Festival” in Hungary. In 2008, the choir was awarded the “Gold Cup” from “Shanghai LEE Wing Shan WONG Tsz Wun International Children’s Chorus Festival”. In 2014, HKCC was selected by the International Federation for Choral LIAO Sum Yin YIP Cheuk Ling Music (IFCM) as one of the IFCM Ambassadors for 2013 to 2015. The Choir was invited to perform in the 2014 LOK Ka Hei YUNG Ho Yin “10th World Symposium on Choral Music” in South Korea, 2015 “The 1st IFCM World Choral Expo” in , LOO Jor Tsz ZHANG Lok Hai 2016 “4th Shenzhen Choral Festival”, 2017 “6th China Children’s Choral Festival” in Zhaoqing, 2018 “2nd LUI Qing Chuan Hannah Shenzhen x Hong Kong x Macau Art & Culture Exchange Festival” Closing Ceremony in Shenzhen and “2018 LUN Yui Chit Kulangsu Choral Festival” Opening Ceremony in Xiamen.

Apart from touring abroad, HKCC also actively participates in local charitable events, including the 1999 “Chorathon” to raise fund for children with hearing disabilities, 2001 “Bridges of Friendship, Bridges of Songs” concert for the Hong Kong Association of the Deaf, 2003 “All for Love” fundraising concert for We Care Education Fund established for children who lost their parents in SARS, 2006 fundraising concert for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008 fundraising music marathon for UNICEF to help children after the Sichuan earthquake, 2010 “Qinghai Earthquake Relief Fundraising Concert” for World Vision Hong Kong to help earthquake victims in Qinghai, “Carol Singing Festival 2011 Sing for Our Next Generation Charity Concert” for the Child Development Matching Fund, 2012 “Bridge of Love Fundraising Concert” for Suen Mei Speech & Hearing Centre which serves children with hearing impairment, 2017 fundraising concert at Sydney City Recital Hall for the cancer support service organization in Australia – CanRevive.

As the children’s choir that best represents Hong Kong, HKCC took part in many historical moments, including the Hong Kong Handover Ceremony in 1997, the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong International Airport in 1998, the Hong Kong Disneyland Grand Opening in 2005, various performances to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s reunification with China in 2007, and series of performances celebrating the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, the East Asian Games in 2009, and performances celebrating the 15th Anniversary as well as the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of HKSAR in 2012 and 2017. (Translations are all provided by the composers/arrangers unless otherwise specified) 面對青山橫北郭 Now facing mountains of green 白水繞東城 laying across the northern horizon 也許 Maybe You Have Grown Weary of Crying 此去後孤身孩兒萬里征 River of white winding around the eastern city 誰言寸草心能報三春暉 Once departed, this child will be alone, 也許你真是哭得太累 Maybe you have grown weary of crying 此際朗月高掛 a thousand miles to conquer 也許 也許你要睡一睡 Maybe - maybe you should get some sleep 獨對星空無限追憶 A stem of grass, mere inches tall, 那麼叫夜鷹不要咳嗽 Well then, I will ask the owls not to cough 無限思鄉無限掛念 how could it ever repay the warmth 蛙不要號 蝙蝠不要飛 The frogs not to croak, and the bats not to fly off given by the sun’s ray in the Spring At this very moment, the moon is high 不許陽光撥你的眼簾 I will not let the sunlight reach your eyelids Alone gazing at the stars chasing a thousand thoughts 不許清風刷上你的眉 I will not let the breeze brush your eyebrows and memories in the mind 無論誰都不能驚醒你 No one will wake you from your sweet dreams A thousand thoughts go homewards, 撐一傘松蔭庇護你睡 I will plant a pine - an umbrella shield - a thousand thoughts turn homewards For you to sleep underneath 可否讓我高歌一曲 Is it possible, allow me to sing a high song 也許你聽這蚯蚓翻泥 Maybe you will like the sound of worms churning the soil 彷似昨日在那家鄉晚唱 Just like yesterday, when we sang 聽這小草的根鬚吸水 Or that of grass-roots softly taking in water once upon a night in the village home 也許你聽這般的音樂 Maybe, this music you hear is more beautiful 比那咒罵的人聲更美 Than the quarrels and curses of man’s world 慈母手中線 The gentle mother, the threads in her hand ( 一針的一針的穿 ) (knitting one thread to the next) 那麼你先把眼皮閉緊 Well then, shut both of your eyes tight 孩兒永緊記 ( 慈母一針的一針的穿 ) This child will never forget 我就讓你睡 我讓你睡 And I shall let you sleep - I shall let you sleep 孩兒此去後孤身萬里征 (The gentle mother knitting one thread to the next) 我把黃土輕輕蓋著你 I will lightly cover you with earth Once departed, alone, a thousand miles to conquer 我叫紙錢兒緩緩的飛 And let the banknotes of the underworld fly slowly TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 錯過 Passed Opportunity 慈母手中線 As the Kind Mother Sews 不知怎應對 飄忽的愛侶 I can’t realise, 月掛星空照亮天邊晚空 The moon, hovering in the starry sky, 不知怎去拉近差距 你想着誰 How to sympathise 月正當空邁向天際故鄉 lights up the corner of the night sky 相戀的證據 不知不覺歸於心碎 I’m unable to close our difference. Who’s on your mind? 等一等讓我高歌一曲 The moon, hovering above the sky, 心裏輕輕的說一句 ( 唉）別捱下去 It’s no big surprise, 歌聲托月送返家鄉再唱 is slowly setting towards my hometown over the horizon that our love has all vaporised Wait for a moment, allow me to sing a high song Heaven knows how hard I’ve tried… (sigh) I’ll survive Perhaps the Moon will carry my song and send it back home and sing it once more 放心放鬆 讓我做我 Let go, let it flow, let me be me 換我做冠軍有錯麼 Now it’s sure my turn to be free 浪送輕舟別去海灣故鄉 The waves carry this little boat along, 送花再多 亦拒絕過 Time to reject, time to select 浪半翻湧像我思緒重重 departing my hometown by the bay 換我任性不羈也不錯 給他上一課 He’ll wake up and understand, who’s in command 等一等浪裡彷彿聽到 The unsteady waves, half tossing and rushing, 當天的我在那家鄉晚唱 just like the many waves of thought tossing in my mind 花光心血 你不會知 What’s gone to waste, who even knows Wait, back home, I seem to faintly hear in the waves 獨個在交戰 Love’s such a torment A song that I once sang 不需心軟 我都看穿 Time to be tough, that’s how it goes: 我聽說女人善變 “La donna è mobile!” 慈母手中線 A gentle mother threads in her hands ( 一針的一針的穿 ) (one thread after another) 勸你若要愛我 Trust me, if you love me, say it or so it be 留下心中暖 Knitted behind the warmth of her heart 愛我別再錯過 Too late, and I’m gone, the world could only agree ( 一絲的一絲的暖 ) (one thread to the next, knitting warmly) 世界不稀罕 遲來還不會認錯 If you won’t take me, hold me, care for me 孩兒此去後孤身浮雲萬里征 This child, after the goodbye, 若待慢現實 不體恤悽楚 At the end of the day, it’s too late, that you’ll see 浮雲落日遊子心聲 will travel like drifting clouds, a thousand miles to conquer 末日後才自覺未疼惜 悔不當初 不知那日家鄉再返 Drifting clouds and the setting sun are the inner voices of a sojourner 痛過恨過怨過 Love me if you trust me, it’s easy as can be Don’t know when I will return home 已厭倦了對錯 Mind you, mind the gap, who’s here to take the first step 你我的心魔 如何能一語道破 We’ve reached a dead end, I don’t comprehend 悶局是絕望 空虛的心窩 Why can’t we just recall like before, have we not been in 熟練地陪着我像最初 love at all? 難道我倆沒快樂過 太多教唆 大說道理 Why take the stage? Too much debate 浣溪沙 ·漁父 Egrets Flying Around the Xisai Mountain 受夠悶夠請返上世紀 Thought you’d better head back to the ice age 要生要死 就似做戲 What pain you have been, a real drama queen 西塞山邊白鷺飛 As the egrets fly around the Xisai mountain 若你沒信心要爭氣 不必太小器 I’ll wake up and understand, I’m in command 散花洲外片帆微 The fishing boats sails about the Sanhua Island 桃花流水鱖魚肥 In the stream floating with peach petals 不需開戰 過好每天 Cherish each day, no longer astray the mandarin fish are full grown 別再受欺騙 I won’t be fooled 不需心軟 我都看穿 Time to be tough, that’s what they say: 自庇一身青箬笠 Bringing my blue bamboo hat 多麼敷衍 這晚不用再見 “So long, farewell, adios, good night, good-bye!” 相隨到處綠蓑衣 I travel around in my green straw cloak 斜風細雨不須歸 The howling wind and drizzle shall not send me home 勸你若要愛我 Trust me, if you love me, say it or so it be 愛我別再錯過 Too late, and I’m gone, the world could only agree 世界不稀罕 遲來還不會認錯 If you won’t take me, hold me, care for me 若待慢現實 不體恤悽楚 At the end of the day, it’s too late, that you’ll see 月光光 照地堂 Shimmering Moon 末日後才自覺未疼惜 悔不當初 月光光 照地堂 Shimm’ring moon beaming on the floor 痛過恨過怨過 Love me if you trust me, it’s easy as can be 蝦仔你乖乖瞓落床 Hush little baby worry you no more 已厭倦了對錯 Come on, carry on, just could we ever right what’s wrong? 聽朝阿媽要趕插秧咯 Ma, in the morn, works hard in the rice field 對錯的雙方 循環不息似著了魔 I hear sadness in ev’ry song 阿爺睇牛佢上山崗 啊 Grandpa watches the herd on the hill, Ah 最激心的歌天天播 if we can’t get along, why still sing on? 蝦仔你快高長大咯 Baby, you grow up and grow strong 但赤地已荒廢 無謂唱和 幫手阿爺去睇牛羊 啊 Aid your grandpa to watch the herd, Ah

勸你若要愛我 愛我別再錯過 Trust me, if you love me, say it or so it be 月光光 照魚塘 Shimm’ring moon shining on the pond 世界 不稀罕 遲來還不會認錯 Too late, and I’m gone, the world could only agree 蝦仔你乖乖瞓落床 Hush little baby worry you no more TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 若待慢現實 不體恤悽楚 If you won’t take me, hold me, care for me 聽朝阿爸要捕魚蝦咯 Pa, in the morn, will fish in the pond 末日後 才自覺 未疼惜 悔不當初 At the end of the day, it’s too late, that you’ll see 阿嫲織網要織到天光 啊 Grandma weaves until another dawn, Ah 蝦仔你快高長大咯 Baby, you grow up and grow strong 痛過恨過怨過 已厭倦了對錯 Love me if you trust me, it’s easy as can be 划艇撒網就更在行 啊 Soon you’ll go a-fishing, and fish all day long, Ah 你我 的心魔 如何能一語道破 Mind you, mind the gap, who’s here to take the first step 悶局是絕望 空虛的心窩 We’ve reached a dead end, I don’t comprehend 月光光 照地堂 Shimm’ring moon beaming on the floor 熟練地 陪着我 像最初 難道我倆沒 Why can’t we just recall like before, have we not been in 年卅晚 摘檳榔 New Year’s Eve we harvest more 五穀豐收堆滿倉囉 What a harvest filled the barn 快樂過 ( 抱怨過 對與錯 ) Love at all? (Ask no more, say no more) 老老嫩嫩喜洋洋 啊 Young and old will all be glad, Ah 驚覺 出了差錯 ( 你與我 出了差錯 ) Dear me, we are done for (You and I, we are done for) 蝦仔你快啲眯埋眼囉 Baby, now close your eyes 抱怨過 對與錯 ( 驚覺 ) Ask no more, say no more (Dear me,) 一覺瞓到大天光 啊 Sleep well, sleep till another morn, Ah 不懂識破 ( 不懂識破 ) Never-ending war (Never-ending war) 錯過 ( 抱怨過 對與錯 ) That’s all, (Ask no more, say no more) 驚覺 出了差錯 ( 你與我 出了差錯 ) Dear me, we are done for (You and I, we are done for) 你錯過 說愛我 ( 你與我 出了差錯 ) You’ve passed up, I give up. (You and I, we are done for) 天外有天 Beyond the Sky 對與錯 That is all 靜聽風聲對海歌唱 Be still and listen to the wind singing to the ocean 靜聽那風浪永不止息 Be still and listen to the waves, they never cease 任意的天邊快樂吹 愛自由 Willful and free, the wind blows happily across the sky 永不願停下 Loving its freedom, the wind never ceases 願我可像海風天邊吹 I wish to be like the wind, blowing across the edge of the sky 靜聽風聲對海歌唱 Be still and listen to the wind singing to the ocean 豆芽國 Magical Beanland 靜聽那風浪永不止息 Be still and listen to the waves, they never cease ( 我愛自由，靜聽風過 ) (I love freedom, be still and listen to the wind) 微暖陽光喜歡聽唱歌 The warming sun likes listening to singing ( 快樂自由，隨著那風浪 ) (Happy and free, riding along the wind and the waves) 雲端小豆芽國青苗彷似幼嫩 The beans, from the small magical beanland beyond the clouds, 任性的我願飛到海角天邊 Wild at heart, I wish to fly to the end of the world 柔軟泥土如父母豆苗高 are young and green 跟風他遠走 And follow the wind to afar 懸掛彩虹當中有個是我 The soft soil, taking the parents’ roles, nurtures the beans 若有天晚風略過又輕輕跟你說 One day, a night breeze might blow by and softly speak to you, One of them, among the rainbow, is me 可跟我走 “Come and follow me” 在這星天裡 In this very night under the starry sky 旋律似階梯上落迴盪 Ups and downs of melodies resemble the climbing of ladders 讓晚風吹 Then let the night breeze blow 同來和幻化更多 And with harmonies come even more magical changes ( 在這晚上 ) (Perhaps it is tonight) 好比編織美夢 As wonderful as weaving sweet dreams

帶著我遠飛 Take me away and fly 童年的我學高歌 I learnt singing as a child 讓我抱擁天與地 Let me embrace the sky and the earth 綿綿樹蔭在結果 Bearing fruits under the shadows of trees ( 我愛自由 乘著風 ) (I love freedom, riding along the wind) 奮鬥多年可知道如何淋細雨越風波 Striving to learn to cope with rain and storms for years 再沒有約束 沒有掛牽 No more restraints, no more worries 童年的我用這歌 I used this song as a child 讓我自我飛 Let me fly on my own 答謝前人決心掌舵 To thank my predecessors’ for taking the helm 放下我讓我飛 Put me down and let me fly 用渺小換最多 Making the most out of tiny details 就算遇挫折失敗 Though I might fail ( 我愛自由 要像鳥展翼飛 ) (I love freedom, like bird winging on high) 強壯成長雲上國樹留香常在分享 Growing with strength on the kingdom above the clouds 就算是跌倒 Though I might fall 明朗晴空畫滿音調悠揚 the trees always share their wisdom by their fragrance 就算受了傷 Though it might hurt 任鳥歌，就如我，加上我更多 The bright sky is filled with soaring melodies 我要跟風飛一趟 I want to fly with the wind once Let the birds sing as I do, and I join them for more TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 天外有天 The sky beyond, the skies above 一起雲上再衝 Let us run above the clouds together 要闖一闖 Let me venture ( 一起編織美夢 ) (Let us weave sweet dreams together) 就算是山外有山 Even there are mountains beyond mountains high 要攀一攀 Let me climb on 童年的我學高歌 I learnt singing as a child 綿綿樹蔭在結果 Bearing fruits under the shadows of trees 帶著我遠飛 Take me away and fly 奮鬥多年可知道如何難處繼續衝破 Striving to overcome hardships continuously for years 讓我抱擁天與地 Let me embrace the sky and the earth 童年的我用這歌 I used this song as a child ( 跟我遠飛直到地極 ) (Follow me to fly to the end of the earth) 答謝前人來成就我 To thank my predecessors’ for shaping me into who I am 再沒有約束 沒有掛牽 No more restraints, no more worries 點上傳萬世的火 To light the fire that passes through thousands of generations 讓我自我飛 Let me fly on my own 一切愉悅奇妙成果都給予我 With all joyful and marvelous accomplishments granted to me ( 讓我去尋自我 (Let me go in search of myself 像離巢燕子飛 ) Like a bird leaving its nest and fly) - English translation by Dominic Lam 放下我讓我飛 Put me down and let my fly 就算遇挫折失敗 Though I might fail ( 我愛自由 要像鳥展翼飛 ) (I love freedom, like bird winging on high) 就算是跌倒 Though I might fall 如果可以 If possible 就算受了傷 Though I might hurt 我要高飛一趟 I want to fly with the wind once 如果可以 If possible 我想和小鳥借翅膀 I wish to borrow a pair of wings from a bird 天外有天 The sky beyond the skies above 在天空自由自在的翱翔 To fly in the sky freely 要闖一闖 Let me venture 如果可以 If possible 就算是山外有山 Even there are mountains beyond mountains high 我想和獵豹借雙腳 I wish to borrow the legs from a leopard 永不放棄 Let me climb on 在原野盡情的暢快奔跑 To run in the plain as fast as I can 若有天晚風略過又輕輕跟你說 : One day, a night breeze might blow by and softly speak to you, 如果可以 If possible 可跟我走 “Come and follow me” 我想和鯨魚借尾巴 I wish to borrow the tail from a whale 在這星天裡 In this very night under the starry sky 在遼闊的海洋中恣意游泳 To swim in the large ocean 那晚風輕輕吹 The wind gently blows 如果可以 If possible 茫然墜進這星天 All of a sudden, I find myself falling into the starry sky 我要帶著一顆勇於探險的心 I wish to have a brave heart 要跟風飛一趟 I want to fly with the wind once and again 探索萬千世界的美麗 To explore every kind of beauty on earth 要跟風飛出星際 Fly beyond the stars 功夫 Kung Fu

問你甚麼是無敵 Let me ask you what is invincible 因住 Watch out 掌風到 A punch to your middle 身似火熱 Body–hot as fire 中路 Watch out 心似水靜 Heart–cool as water 打兩巴 Slap you left and right 左面 陰陰佢 Look to your left 鉗羊馬 The legs in two-pronged pliers’ structure 望右呇佢左 小心啦 A sneaky attack to his right 挺腰 The back straight ( 絕招 十八掌 詠春 ) (Final trick, 18 Palm Attacks, Wing Chun) 力聚於根基 The strength must gravitate towards your foundation ( 好武功 下下硬朗 勇往直插 ) (Great Kung Fu, tough on every attack, aim bravely) 拳在抱 用力貫穿 Hand and fist punch and follow through 少林遇武當 功夫了得武術驚人 Invincible as the Kung Fu of Shaolin and Wudang maybe 出手於一剎間 Moving in a flash 旋風腿 Swift kick 靈若兔 卻猛似虎 Quick as a bunny and fierce as a tiger Tiger upper cut Tiger upper cut 可攻可以守 Defend as you attack 獨臂刀無影腳在半空翻騰 One-armed knife and shadowless kick flying in mid-air 憑熱血 Rely on my passion ( 龜波氣功 絕招新奇 ) (Turtle Qigong, wondrous final trick) 戰不休直到勝利 Fearlessly and ceaselessly I fight till I win 無敵腳金鐘罩 Invincible kick, golden shield 斬 斬 斬 斬 斬 Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop 要臨敵做到冷靜 To remain calm in front of an enemy 觀四週靜聽八方 You must see 4 sides and hear all 8 corners 請問當世間 怎樣是無敵 Let me ask you how to be invincible 行動要迅速 Quick as lightning 請就讓我領教 Let me learn the lesson 無定向像片風吹過 Unpredictable as the wind passing through 前後腳翻身過 Front kick, back kick, scissor kick 生命係你手 快樂與自由 You must steer your destiny with your own hands TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 踢 踢 踢 踢 踢 Kick Kick Kick Kick Kick 一切用雙手創 功夫想了得 To be a Kung Fu master 苦練不少得 Hard work is the basic requirement 問世上那是無敵 Let me ask you who is invincible 天下就等你來闖盪 The world awaits you to conquer Come on Come on Come on Come on, Come on, Come on 看招 Watch out 沉著氣 Control your breath 扎馬要穩 Steady your footwork - English translation by Steve Ho and Dominic Lam 意志堅心要冷靜 With iron will but a cool mind 迎面破鐵掌風 Dissolve the wind of an iron palm 出手快似電 With a lightning-fast counterpunch 靈若兔 猛似虎 Quick as a bunny and fierce as a tiger 擘掛勾穿插督 Chop, cut, hook, cut, cross, jab 憑熱血 Rely on my passion, 戰不休直到勝利 Fearlessly and ceaselessly I fight till I win

硬橋硬馬碎大石 Brute strength can smash big rocks 以柔弱亦會制剛 A gentle flow can subdue brute forces 行動要迅速在片刻幻化起風雲 In a flash, storm and clouds are summoned 前後腳 交叉腳 Front kick, back kick, scissor kick 叉 叉 叉 叉 叉 Tiger uppercut 敢問當世間 怎樣 ( 甚麼 ) 是無敵 可否跟我 Let me ask you, do you dare to challenge me 比 比 比 比 比 Me Me Me Me Me 辛詞四季 A Poet’s Four Seasons

I. 春 - 青玉案·元夕 I. Spring - The Lantern Festival III. 秋 - 採桑子·書博山道中壁 III. Autumn - Of Grief and Autumn

東風夜放花千樹 One night’s wind made a thousand trees burst into flower 少年不識愁滋味 In youth I knew nothing of the taste of sorrow 更吹落 星如雨 And breath down still more showers of fallen stars 愛上層樓 I liked to mount the storied towers 寶馬雕車香滿路 Splendid horses, carved carriages, fragrance filled the road 愛上層樓 I liked to mount the storied towers 鳳簫聲動 玉壺光轉 Music resounded from paired flutes 為賦新詞強說愁 To conjure up a bit of sorrow to make new verse 一夜魚龍舞 Light swirled on water-clock towers 而今識盡愁滋味 Now I know only too well the taste of sorrow 蛾兒雪柳黃金縷 Gold-threaded jacket, moth- or willow-shaped hair ornaments 欲說還休 I start to speak yet pause 笑語盈盈暗香去 Melted into the throng, giggling, a trail of scents 欲說還休 I start to speak yet pause 衆裏尋他千百度 In the crowd I looked for her a thousand times 却道天涼好個秋 And say instead, “My, what a cool and lovely autumn” 驀然回首 那人卻在 燈火闌珊處 And all at once, as I turned my head, I was startled to find her Among the lanterns where the candles were growing dim

IV. 冬 - 賀新郎·把酒長亭說 IV. Winter - Yearning in the Midst of Snow II. 夏 - 西江月·夜行黃沙道中 II. Summer - A Midsummer Night’s Walk 把酒長亭說 Toasting goodbye at the rest pavilion by the roadside 明月別枝驚鵲 A bright moon frightens magpies on the bough 看淵明 風流酷似 臥龍諸葛 You are like the admirable Yuan-ming and Zhuge Liang 清風半夜鳴蟬 Cicadas shrill cool at midnight 何處飛來林間鵲 All of a sudden a magpie perched upon a pine tree 稻花香裏說豐年 A whiff of these fields you can tell a good crop 蹙踏鬆梢微雪 Flicking off the lingering snowflakes from its branch TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 聽取蛙聲一片 Every frog croaks loud for the harvest 要破帽多添華髮 Falling upon us it seems to add to our greying hair 剩水殘山無態度 Snow-covered, the landscape is deprived of its life 七八個星天外 On the horizon, seven, eight stars 被疏梅料理成風月 Interspersed with nothing but a few plum trees 兩三點雨山前 Two or three drops of rain on the hill 兩三雁 也蕭瑟 Two or three wild geese make it look all the bleaker 舊時茅店社林邊 Thatched inn next to the village god’s house 路轉溪頭忽見 Round the corner the old bridge still here 佳人重約還輕別 You came as you promised, but you leave too soon 悵清江 With sadness I’ve rushed over to see you off 天寒不渡 Braving the cold weather that freezes the river 水深冰合 Alas, it was nearly impossible to get across 路斷車輪生四角 Wheels on the impassible road became blocked 此地行人銷骨 With cold wind sending a chill along my spine 問誰使 君來愁絕 Why am I feeling so grieved and so sorrowful 鑄就而今相思錯 Because I regret letting you go in the first place 料當初 費盡人間鐵 As if I had folded a huge mistake with all the iron ore in the world 長夜笛 The whining wail of a flute in the night 莫吹裂 Will not, as I wish, tear out my heart 也斯說 Says Yasi

I. 白日 I. White Sun II. 未昇 II. Rise Not

池中的白日 The white sun on the pond 幾扇窗子反照著 Several windows reflect the light 越來越明亮 Brightens and brightens 未昇的太陽 Of an unrisen sun 在我們清白的等待中成形 On our forms as we innocently await 浮雲 Clouds floating 走過街衢 To cross the thoroughfare 在枯草和浮萍下面 Through dried grasses and duckweed 某些歡悅的臉孔 A number of happy faces 緩緩 Unhurrying 尚未在太陽之下 That are not yet under the sun 移過 Pass 一塊寫著午餐的牌子 From a sign that has lunch written on it 嶙峋的石塊 Rugged boulders 我抬頭看見我遠離 I lift my head and see far away from me 看著倒影 Catch their own reflections 沙地上逐漸的白 On the gradually whitening sandy ground 擁抱自己 Embracing themselves 毫無塵埃的清晣的影子 A clear shadow that is not at all dusty 越來越陰暗 More and more shadowed. 移向我 Shifting towards me 一陣風 A gust 木質的河床走著同樣的人 People of a similar nature move between riverbanks 吹過 Rises 泅泳者經已歸來 Already swimming back 他看見那些 They see those (images) 樹 The trees 尚未成為太陽的 Which have not yet become the sun TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 折斷了 Refracting in myriad pieces 橋 The bridge, too - English translation by John Winzenburg 起了波紋 Rippling 所有的 And 顏色 Hues III. 舊市空間 III. Old City Space 閃爍 Polychrome 不定 And shimmering 總是知道怎樣應付空間苛刻的待遇 You always know how to survive harsh conditions 只有白日 Only this white sun 在方寸裏雕鏤繽紛大千世界 Carving a multifarious world within closed quarters 依舊明亮 Is brighter than ever 在沒有院子的地方發展了天台 Creating an open space where there is no courtyard 甚至給流走的枯葉 Making a gift to the fallen leaves 沒有泥土的鐵皮屋背種植花園 A garden on the tin roof where this is no earth 帶著點點白光遠去 Of sparkling as they drift away in light 立足的地點雖然不夠牢固 The foothold may not be firm, but for all the years 隨時在上下左右搭起多年的寢室 You constantly build around you a place to rest - English translation by Gordon T. Osing and Leung Ping-Kwan, published in City at the End of Time 是鐵籠還是靜軒名實老是移換不符 Be it iron cage or Serene Court, the names don’t match (Hong Kong University Press: 2012) 泯滅了內外的界線狹小的(冰箱裏有海洋) The outside is the inside 後門前門大排檔枱櫈阻礙曲徑通幽 (and you have the ocean in a small fridge) 流動小販整天 ( 照顧大街小巷的胃口 ) Scattered tables and chairs of foodstalls 朝拆晚行的杋布床是我們秘密的形狀 block all paths to serenity 有限的空間裏舒伸瓶罐中長出樹苗 All day long, mobile hawkers take care of appetites along the lane Canvas cots put together at night shape our daily secrets Stretching in limited space, future plants grow from bottles and cans

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