McDull: A Sentimental Little Christmas

EVENT DESCRIPTION

What is the real meaning of Christmas? Find out what McDull thinks in this special Hong Kong Sinfonietta concert. (Narration in Cantonese)

Music Director Emeritus/Conductor: Yip Wing-sie
Concept/Co-directors: Brian Tse & Alice Mak
Violin: James Cuddeford
Animation Production: Lunchtime Production Limited
In collaboration with: Chun Tian Hua Hua Foundation Ltd
Voice Artists: Colleen Lee (HKS Artist Associate 2010-2011), Yuri Ng (HKS Artist Associate 2011-2013)

Christmas songs sung by members of the Yip’s Children’s Choir

 

Programme

Leroy Anderson
A Christmas Festival

Vivaldi
The Four Seasons: Winter

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves

Katherine Davis/Ip Kim-kuok arr
The Little Drummer Boy

Mussorgsky/Ravel orch
Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Mel Tormé/Robert Wells
The Christmas Song

Franz Gruber
Silent Night

Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

Felix Bernard/Richard Smith
Winter Wonderland

Wagner
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries

Grieg
Two Elegiac Melodies: Last Spring

Howard Blake
The Snowman: Walking in the Air

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

One of Hong Kong’s flagship orchestras, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has brought music closer to the community, and achieved significant local and international recognition for its passionate performances and innovative programming. Since 1999, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has collaborated with an illustrious array of international musicians and groups, including in recent years Ilya Gringolts, Martin Helmchen, Sergei Nakariakov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mariinsky Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

The orchestra is a regular guest at international arts festivals and has toured 41 cities around the world. As an avid believer of keeping music alive and contemporary, Hong Kong Sinfonietta commissions and performs new works every year and ventures into new initiatives, recently receiving wide acclaim for its Back On Stage concert film series, as well as the Tiny Galaxy Concerts online series featuring performances recorded at a fascinating hostel in Hong Kong. In 2021, the orchestra co-curated the “Life is Art” film festival with MOViE MOViE, while continuing to break down barriers between music and audience with free chamber concerts held regularly at Hong Kong City Hall.