Guandong Saloon Music

Warning: In Cantonese

Category: Music

Genre:

Company:
LCSD

Venue:

Date and Time:
April 6 2017, 4:30pm April 7 2017, 8pm

Ticket Price:
120-180

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Sai Wan Ho

Ticketing By: Urbtix

Age Limitation: 6

In the 1920s, many Hong Kong teahouses had set up their own saloons, where female singers were invited to sing Cantonese operatic songs and Nanyin with a live band.  During the singing performances, teahouse-goers could enjoy teas and even dance.  By the 1930s, renowned performers such as Siu Ming Sing, Tsui Lau-sin, Cheung Wai-fong and Cheung Yuet-yee all earned their fame by singing at saloons.  Tender Feelings Attached to My Love, as the signature song of Sim Kim-lai, and Nostalgia composed by Wong Yue-sang are selected in the programme to bring back the taste of Guangdong Music from the past.

Repertoire includes (vocal) Tender Feelings Attached to My Love, Nostalgia, Husband's Belated Return, Beautiful Water Lily on a Silver Lake and (ensemble) In Celebration of Good Times, Butterflies among the Flowers, Playing the Lute by the Plantain and the Rockery, The Love of My Dream, The Beauty Yonder, Young Lovers, Enigma, The Toll of the Temple Bell, A Hungry Horse Shaking Its Bells, Rain Lashing on the Plantain, Autumn Moon over a Placid Lake

Running time of the performance is approximately 2 hours including an intermission of 15 minutes.