Karma means meetings and partings Music as driven by emotions

"Music is driven by emotions" - this is a remark made by the world famous composer, He Zhanhao on his own works. His Butterfly Lovers, written in 1959, which integrates Chinese traditional theatre with Chinese sensibilities, has become a classic in world music and the most frequently featured Chinese symphony and concerto. He continued with later successes, also on the theme of love. At this concert entitled Revisiting the Dream, we have invited He Zhanhao to guest conduct his romantic opus. He will be joined by his son, violinist He Kui, who is returning from the United States, in a rendition of Butterfly Lovers that demonstrates supreme father-and-son rapport. In The Butterfly Loves the Flower, erhu artist Duan Aiai recreates the devastated emotional state of "teardrops coming down like pouring rain" through her sensitive and heartrending playing. Qian Kun, the first musician to receive a degree in konghou in China, will tell the age-old story of A Peacock Flying to the Southeast using this equally age-old instrument. Luo Jing, Zheng Principal of the HKCO, will also be telling the tragic love story of the poet Lu You and Tang Wan.