Author: jeremy chan
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Leeds International Piano Competition Entry #1: Round 1
The first round was held internationally in three different venues: Berlin’s University of Arts, Singapore’s Yong Siew Toh Music Conservatory and New York’s DiMenna Center. Competitors only played for 25 minutes (yup, that’s considered short), and had to offer a programme which included pieces from the baroque/classical AND romantic/20th century periods. Listening to the 24…
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Stories From Home #2: Leeds International Piano Competition!
Graced with the powers of modern technology, classical music has fortunately not been left to bite the dust. Thanks to the second-most amazing online TV(Netflix tops the list no question!), medici.tv allows me to follow one of the world’s most prestigious piano competition without any cost at all! Sure, the removal of a price tag…
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Stories From Home #1: The Barber of Sai Kung
Since I’m back in Hong Kong for three months, I’m starting a new series of short stories entitled “Stories From Home”. I hope to try out different ways of writing while writing about other people, inspired by real events but filled by my own imagination. This story is inspired by my barber, Dacky, who works…
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Stories from My Travels #2: Monica, the Modern Mariner
Here’s a story inspired by a traveller I met on the bus to Carcassonne, a small medieval fortified town in the south of France. It also draws inspiration from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, a poem which gave me Stockholm syndrome from the number of times I had to read it for my essay.…
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Stories from My Travels #1: Gyorgy’s Lament
Hey everyone, This will hopefully be the start of a series of prose and short stories inspired by people I’ve met and stories I’ve heard while I was travelling. Or simply inspired by new places. I shall call this series Stories from My Travels, because that’s what it seems to be. Please bear in mind…
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Two amazing concerts at the Festival de Pâques
During my seven nights in Aix-en-Provence, a bustling little town in the south of France surrounded by mountains, two were spent in the Grand Theatre of Provence, and they were two well-spent nights indeed. The Festival de Pâques is a festival of classical music held every Easter in Aix-en-Provence, the former capital of the Provence…
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An Intense Musical Experience
I know I said this blog was about things literary-based, but I also remember saying that I just want to rant sometimes, so I’d like to share something that I really enjoyed this evening. Tonight the Durham University Palatinate Chamber Orchestra performed in St Margaret’s Church, and I experienced a phenomenal feeling playing in the…
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Everyman: for God or for himself
To be honest with you, I’ve almost forgotten about this blog. Since the start of uni, I’ve just been running around doing everything possible. Thing is, for me, if I ever give myself time to stop and think while I’m in a new environment, destruction of the mind follows. I tend to overthink and overanalyze…
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Poor Moll
So the other day I was reading “Moll Flanders” by Daniel Defoe. I still am because it’s a hard read for me. In the story the start of Moll’s Ruin (old English writers tend to capitalize everything) begins with a secret affair with the elder brother of the reputable household she is working in. Now…
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“Dangal” made me cry.
I hate crying in movies. Especially in a cinema. Especially when I’m next to my mom. But Dangal made me do all that. Twice. I had a discussion with my mom afterwards. After-movie discussions are great, especially when you get the view of a parent on a movie that’s about a father forcing her daughter…
Literally Left-handed 