Founded in 1965, the Department of Music of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been nurturing diverse music talents ever since, and celebrated its 55th anniversary last year. However, because of a delay, the gala organised by the alumni will be held this year instead. Teachers and students from different generations will play together in Chinese ensembles, choirs and orchestras. Earlier this week, two of their graduates, Sheng player Loo Sze-wang and the Vice President of the Alumni Association came to our studio to share more with us.

For an artist, singing is not necessarily only about entertaining people, but also a medium to express ones’ emotions and ideas. In today’s musical retrospective, we will revisit the cinematic rock of Nowhere Boys, with their song “Rhapsody”, a reflection of their passion and pride in making music. Following that, we will slow things down with a more mellow tune with Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter Emmy the Great’s “Chang-E”, a tale about distance, and her love for the sound of Hong Kong’s traffic lights. Finally, we will experience a taste of a German love song, in a Lieder recital titled “I Am Certain I Shall See You Again”, by Baritone Benjamin Appl and Pianist James Baillieu.