Everlasting Cantonese Music (English version)：Episode 4 “Winter Comes and Summer Goes” “Desolate Pet

In this episode, we will appreciate 3 pieces of Cantonese music with our audience: “Winter Comes and Summer Goes”, “Desolate Petals on the Guileless Water” and “A Delightful Tune from Canton”.
CHAN Nga-man vents her glumness through the creation of “Winter Comes and Summer Goes”, and leaves space for performers to interpret this work more freely.
LAW Wing-fai’s “Desolate Petals on the Guileless Water” originates from a poem of poet LI Qingzhao in the Northern Song Dynasty: “Desolate petals on the guileless water. One kind of yearning, two persons apart in sorrow. Futile are the means to get rid of the sentiment, now the frown eases, then my heart is drowned.” Listeners can feel the euphemistic resignation expressed in the piece.
“A Delightful Tune from Canton” is a string ensemble piece. The composer LO Leung-fai combines joyful and lyrical elements in the hope of bringing out the humour in Cantonese music.

Host: KWOK Ka-ying
Programme:
CHAN Nga-man “Winter Comes and Summer Goes” (2020) [“Soft Bow” Five-Piece Combo] (Commissioned Work)
LAW Wing-fai “Desolate Petals on the Guileless Water” (1999) [Yehu Solo]
LO Leung-fai “A Delightful Tune from Canton” (2015) [String Emsemble]

CHAN Nga-man is a young Chinese music composer.
Professor LAW Wing-fai is one of the few veteran composers in Hong Kong who has crossed the boundary between commercial music and the arts. He is now the Composer-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Artistic Director of Wuji Ensemble.
LO Leung-fai is a Chinese music composer. He was a full-time musician at the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Kwok Ka-ying is a young Hong Kong yangqin player. She is the first postgraduate to be awarded a master’s degree in yangqin from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and also a resident musician of the Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble.