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The Works：Paris & HK from two different perspectives & piainist Chiyan Wong

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When it comes to daily commute, Ben Pelletier tends to bomb around town on his motorbike to get to work. And If Ben Tse has the chance, walking is his first choice. But many Hongkongers, maybe living further from their workplaces, have to drive or take a bus. However we travel around the city, few of us take the time - or can take the risk - to really look around us. Two exhibitions organised as part of Le French May are encouraging us to use our eyes a bit more and look at two very different cities from different perspectives. One looks, as its title suggests, at “Hong Kong Upside Down”. The other views Paris from above specifically focusing on the city’s rooftops, a cultural heritage that not only inspired writers and poets like Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, and Charles Baudelaire, but also painters such as Monet, Pissarro, and Van Gogh.
In his less advanced years, Franz Liszt was pretty much the world’s first pop star. Over-excited female fans would grab at him, tear at his clothes, and fight over his broken piano strings and locks of his hair. Such enthusiasm was dubbed by the German Poet Heinrich Heine, "Lisztomania."Today we remember Liszt, a little more sedately, mostly for his piano works. As he liked to show off his own virtuosity on the instrument, Liszt’s works are often technically difficult to perform. He also wrote for orchestra and ensembles. For the piano his pieces are often divided into two categories. One consists of entirely original works. The other of adaptations, known as “transcriptions”, “paraphrases” or “fantasies”, of works by other composers. Hong Kong-born Chiyan Wong has spent years studying Liszt’s transcriptions. His debut CD is all about that process. He’s with us now.
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