Counting Down to Christmas

Last night I had eventually put up my Christmas Tree, the same Tree that I'd been using for the past few years.

I really enjoy the process of putting up the tree and hanging up all these ornaments and decorations for my home. Could really feel the 'love' and the 'cold' (yes imaginary one), though HK is still around 20C each day, but heard that it's gonna get colder (or cooler) in the next 2 days. Guess that we could really start to feel the Winter and Christmas in HK.

I had previously said that Autumn is a season for hugging, and for me, Winter is definitely a season for LOVE. It's a season to share the love, not just to the 'lovers' but to friends & families around us. It's a season of JOY!!

This Christmas I'm going to share my joy & love through our music, sharing our passion, love, feelings & dream. Hope we can really make it!!

HAPPY WINTER & WISH EVERYONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Amazing Sandy Lam Concert -- so Sandy!!!

*picture was taken by Kelly's friend

"Come as you are, be what you are" is the theme of Sandy's concert this time. And this is indeed a concert that really puts 'MUSIC' to the centre of everything.

"Star Hall" is the venue that Sandy is holding her concert, the feeling was like going to the new convention centre at WanChai, but as the concert starts, I found that the music effect is much better than the other halls.

The stage set up is pretty simple and with a big white screen at the back , giving me a feeling of getting into an art centre or designer gallery. The visual of this concert is PERFECT, and combines with her angelic perfect voice and the great performance of the band and background vocal. This is just superb!!

This is a very very different concert compare to the other HK singers, which I would say is 'uncomparable'. Sandy did not say a single word other than 'Thank You' and throughout the whole concert she had only changed her outfit ONCE. Not a single dancer was hired but with her own movement in every single song I could just feel she had the total control of the show and she's just so sexy, charming and charismatic!

The concert had splitted into 2 halves, first half is more with jazz & blues; whereas the 2nd half will be more electronics like the fashion show music. Very cosmopolitan & metropolitan, which really coincides with Sandy's image since the very beginning. As everybody knows fans are crazy about her fast songs, and enjoyed her dancing a lot. The only dance beat song she sang that night was '逃離鋼筋森林', we just went all crazy and stood up to dance and sing with her. The atmoshpere was just so perfect.

The selection of songs was really 'advanturous' as she claimed herself to be. 80% of the songs were never been sung in any previous concerts. And for the ones that had appeared in other previous concerts, she had given EVEYR SINGLE ONE of those songs with new arrangement and new feeling. '走在大街的女子' was backed up with 6 different tracks of her own voices, which gives me goose bump and the new arrangment of '哭' had given me a big surprised and brand new feeling, and with the song '天衣無縫' I had got myself watery eyes. The last song that she sang was the opening song of her last album 'S/L', that was a song dedicated to her old friend Richard Lam Chun Keung. Her voice was so angelic with just 'LA~~~' throughout the song and it was indeed SOOOO touching!

The ONLY thing that I didn't think was necessary was the piano playing part, but I think as long as that's Sandy's own idea and she wanted to it, then I'm happy. In fact.. if the theme is 'TO BE WHAT YOU ARE', then I'm sure playing the piano is definitely her own willingness to do so.

Once again, the band was excellent, the drum/the base/2 grand pianos/cello/ violin/pipa/erhu/chinese flute/purcussion and the 3 background vocals were really with international standard. Excellent musicians, probably as my friend said, Patrick Lui was already the worse one in the whole band.

One thing that really amazed me was that there was a blonde girl in the background vocal, I was wondering how she could do the background vocal in cantonese?!? haha interesting!!

By reading the credits from on the 2nd last song, I found that the the visual effects, stage design, stage production, all these stuffs were recruited from Japan with Japanese professionals. Music director of course to be by Anthony Lun, but the band leader was Mac Chew whom had been doing Sandy's album for many years and I had already loved his composition and arrangment. '感覺完美', '夜太黑' these 2 album were having Mac Chew highly involved and I really loved these 2 albums.

This concert is not for people who are having the same set of mind to see Andy Lau concert, no mainstream songs at all, no erotic dances (though I think her body movement on those jazzy/blues song were so sexy), no karaoke songs, no fashion show, no special guests. But it's something very inspiring and unforgetable.

I would say it's a 10/10 concert and it's really amazing and I'm so glad that Sandy had brought HK something so different and she really could be called DIVA.

All I wanna say is.. Sandy 你好o野.. 你夠型!

Nodame Cantabile - Music for the Young Hearts

昨晚在伊館欣賞了由香港管弦樂團演奏的節目”交響。情人夢的音樂世界”。聽說因為是徇眾要求才有這音樂會，所以正統的音樂廳都訂不了而要轉戰伊館。

音樂會整體來說都不錯，至少比我預期中好。只是後面有個嘈喧巴閉的女孩子一直不停說話，一直講一直講直到樂團奏起第一粒音符才肯閉嘴，真想打她一巴掌!

不過其實我覺得音響跟人的質素都比我預期好!至少真的沒有電話響聲也沒有人在談話 (至少我聽不到!) 本來我以為觀眾可能都是”趁虛”的嘈喧巴閉，不過又不是這樣，所以比想像好!!

曲目方面當然是Beethoven Symphony No.7 的第一章加第四章去做開首與結尾，不過沒有轉大提琴的場面 :P　不過他們想轉都轉不到，台上太擠迫了，指揮的Edo De Waart每次都要側側身才能走到指揮台上!

中間有位年輕的鋼琴手宋思衡(要到法國wiki才找到他)負責演奏Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 1st movement　和 Rhapsody in Blue。情感就真的足夠了，不過不是聽不出有錯音:P說真的，曲目也真太難，不易能彈得完美。宋先生非常感情豐富，有點怕他坐的椅子會塌下!! XD

漂亮的演藝學院學生林啟妍為小提琴手王亮伴奏 Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5 Spring 1st movement。都不錯啦! hhahaha

好可惜他們沒有演奏Mozart首oboe concerto。好喜歡黑木這首曲目呢....! :P

不過最搞笑就時奏完了貝七的第四章時，真的有人在掌聲中喊到"BRAVO"!!! kekeke

Eason Concert

這幾個月將會是充滿著不同的文化藝術節目欣賞，繼10月28日看過 "梨花夢"後，在10月30日晚去了欣賞 "陳奕迅演唱會。因為朋友關係有機會坐在台前第三行欣賞Eason的演出。

已不是第一次看他的演唱會，但卻每一次都聽得我血脈沸騰。

一開始唱出 "白玫瑰" 把觀眾大進那簡單亦亮麗高貴的舞台中，第三首唱快歌時卻head set咪高峰不爭氣沒有聲音，於是唯有用手拿著，但都沒有影響到他的演出。之後唱了幾首上一張碟的歌曲，有富士山下，有裙下之臣。快歌亦唱了多首收錄在最新唱片的歌曲，很是熱鬧。

熟悉的快歌還有 "衝口而出" 和 "第五個現代化"，Eason的聲音真的好聽到不行。要悲慘的/要安靜的/要歇斯底里的/要浮誇的/要甜蜜的，他都可以一一大給我們。基本上我相信他根本就是一個精神分裂的人。

唱的大部份都是最新兩隻碟的歌曲，所以當他唱出 "我不好愛" 和 "黃金時代" 時我真的興奮到不得了。

整晚就只唱了 "淘汰" 一首國語歌，有點不夠喉!!! :P

不知是否因為頭幾行都是唱片公司的職員家屬居多，一點都不似為了欣賞Eason而來的，整晚 "靜英英"，一點都不投入! 下次可能後幾行坐近Eason自己的家屬多些好能會好一點! hehe

這晚看不到他的妻女，卻見到亞三哥和黃日華。


P.S. 不知從何時開始所有演唱會怎樣都要弄些大膽的情慾舞蹈，舞蹈藝員通通成為showgirl，COME ON ，我看陳奕迅吧了，我不認為有或沒有這些環節會影響到門票銷售... XDDD

梨花夢

http://www.hkrep.com/tc_chi/season/2007-season3-1.html

10月28日買了票去看梨花夢，本以為得自己一個，怎知原來並不孤單。

今次梨花夢的演出是為了恭賀香港話劇團30週年，亦有說因為是總監毛俊輝先生退休前最後一擊，所以很多人捧場，加了一場又一場。恰巧我去的就是尾場，份外吸引。

故事改編自"老殘遊記"，上半部節奏比較明快輕鬆，很多惹人發笑的地方。後半部冷卻下來，但卻不沉悶，只是風格變了，多了要人思考的地方。給予了大家去回想一下自己的人生意義的空間。不過老僧說的佛偈就不是太明白!!

早知道飾演老殘的是謝君豪，但之前卻沒有留意飾演賈大少奶的是劉雅麗。兩位香港話劇團出身的演員回歸劇團，為劇團演出30週年話劇真的沒有令人失望。謝君豪已久久沒有踏足舞台，拍電影拍電視劇卻始終不給在台上耀眼/吸引。劉雅麗亦演少了，她也應該是屬於舞台的。情況就如兩年前 "新傾城之戀"的蘇玉華，在舞台上美的要命，非常吸引。

希望再有多點機會看到他們在台上演出，我一定不會錯過。(不過還是錯過了八月時蘇玉華有份演出的 "暗戀桃花園")

最後不能不提的是劇中的黑妞/白妞，歌唱得很好，舞亦跳得非常漂亮。劇中的歌曲部份功勞不少，因為就是這些歌曲做著"旁述"的工作。非常欣賞此劇的作曲人倫永亮和填詞人岑偉宗，令此劇更有趣味!

P.S. 對於謝君豪最後幾分鐘的獨腳戲，我略嫌他說得不夠清晰，有點 'lur埋一舊'，我覺得這部份可以更好。