City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
There's nothing new about fusing seemingly incompatible styles of art together. Although the classical scene has been late adopters, it doesn't seem to be going out of favour anytime soon.
The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong will participate this Friday in a showcase of flamenco music and dance. The orchestra will perform under the baton of Jean Thorel, while Rosana Romero and Adrian Santana take centre stage as the dancers.
The programme features pieces by three composers: Luigi Boccherini's , Quintet in D-Major, Rodion Shchedrin's arrangement of , and Manuel de Falla's .
"Flamenco music is quite different from classical," says choreographer Nina Corti, 59, "so the style of the movements have to change to adapt to the orchestral music. It's a lot of technical flamenco know-how mixed with the classical Spanish vocabulary of dance movements."
