來自：ywsing0
時間：Fri Dec 07 13:53:23 2007
| Popular Christmas carol Silent Night, believe it or not, was written for and first performed on the guitar - according to legend because on Christmas Eve in 1818 in the small alpine village of Oberndorf in Austria, the organ at St Nicholas Church had broken down. Music lovers in Hong Kong, however, will have the pleasure of listening to the world's most loved Yuletide melody played on the organ. Wolfgang Brommer, a German organ master builder and performer, is in town for a week to perform traditional German Christmas carols for a sneak prelude to the festive season. Brommer and his composer, Adrian Oswalt, for the first time ever will play familiar yet emphatic melodies like Silent Night and Every Year Again. They had performed in Nanjing in October in the first Germany and China - Moving Ahead Together festival to celebrate the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the countries. The mainland concerts drew crowds of more than 80,000 over 10 days. "Eating and drinking is something for your body, but music is something for your soul. I'm glad I have the chance to make music for people to listen to, dance [along] and have some fun," said the 48-year-old Brommer. The duo will perform in shopping malls under Sun Hung Kai Properties in Tseung Kwan O, Tuen Mun, Causeway Bay, Tsuen Wan and Sheung Shui from today to next Thursday. Brommer has built numerous kinds of organs, from pipe organs - the most expensive of which is worth up to two million euros (HK$22.7 million) - to street organs. Five of his masterpiece street organs - worth 15,000 to 50,000 euros - will be exhibited in the Landmark North shopping mall in Sheung Shui from next Thursday to December 28. The latest of his projects involves a 12-meter by 12-meter mega pipe organ for the St Michael Cathedral in Qingdao which is expected to take him a year and a half to complete, for a reward of 700,000 euros. "They want it done specifically before the Beijing Olympic Games since people from all around the world will flock to the town," he said, referring to the famed Qingdao harbor which will host the Games' sailing competition. For those not familiar with the instrument, an organ - mostly seen in churches, concert halls or even on the street as street organs - is a keyboard instrument using wind moving through metal or wood pipes and oscillators to produce sound. (HK standard, http://hk.news.yahoo.com/071206/318/2kvfj.html) |