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...By contrast, Li Kui-ming, a local feng shui consultant and arts impresario, reaches from the ground up....
...For another, its members still keep their day jobs, with first violinist Ning Feng and cellist Qin Liwei maintaining international solo careers while second violinist Wang Xiaomao serves as concertmaster...
...Ken Nwosu as Face the butler, Mark Lockyer as Subtle the grouchy alchemist and Siobhán McSweeney as Dol Common work with the comparative calm and certainly the assurance of practised swindlers....
...Conductor Yu Feng — also the company’s president — focused on power rather than precision and mined Wagner’s score for every musical nuance, occasionally to the detriment of the drama....
...A percussive chamber band, knowingly led by Ken Lam, rumbles, clicks and buzzes busily in the pit. The ensemble employs pipa, dizi, erhu, gaohu and sheng as well as conventional western instruments....
...The pairing of pianist Sa Chen and violinist Ning Feng, both veterans of the competition circuit and fine young soloists in their own right, was entitled in Chinese “Bow-Piano Double Heroes”, marking them...
...The Piano Concerto quotes heavily from Tan’s score to Feng Xiaogang’s film The Banquet....
...Also racing on the un-gruelling course will be Casino City’s Michael Corfman, who will be taking on Ken Dreifach of the New York attorney-general’s office....
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