Music

Forging a cappella music, physicality, theatricality and visuals into a new totality, the new production Requiem HK is our sophomore effort after the success of the first-of-its-kind theatre work ‘Our Immortal Cantata’, which was enlisted also in the New Vision Festival in 2014. Not only the expansion in the reach for a cappella music though adventurous theatre setting, but also the reflections on our status quo brought forth through our quirky inventive and original programming are the quintessence of this long-anticipated new production.

Yat Po Singers is pleased to present a new work ‘Requiem HK’ in its Hong Kong première at the Ko Shan Theatre New Wing Auditorium in June from 17-19th. Our finest vocal troupe, outstanding guest vocalists and esteemed lyricist Chow-Yiu Fai altogether with creative headmaster trio, composer Ng Cheuk-yin, choral director Patrick Chiu and stage director Yuri Ng, will bring Requiem HK to life in a mesmerising trance, entailing its innate power to console.

The previous incarnation of Hong Kong deserves some of the nostalgic; Gone were the days when diligence had a pay-off; mass media made fair judgement; owning a house was achievable little by little; amity was built upon face-to-face confrontation and nothing to be ashamed of being poor. Our nostalgic is coupled with deprecation of the way things shape up in present time where diligence could drive you into a corner, public opinion is harnessed by one-sided reporting, owning a house is little more than froth, a full-on embrace of techno-gadgets isolates us from the actual touch with real people and poverty plunges us into an abyss of despair.

While we reckon our tremendous loss in those shifts, we are ready for more shifts to transpire. Requiem HK, a soul-soothing sensual experience not for the dead but for life and the living, deals with the transience of life, the remembrance of things past, the need for a final resolution and the prophecy of hope for the future.