Music Concert Report Street Music Performance

Music Concert Report-- Street music performance of “Under a vast sky”

It was a normal evening on national celebration day when I made appointment with my friends in Tsim Sha Tsui. Having stepped out of MTR station, I had encountered an impressive live street music performance in an underpass.

The music came to my ears first. I was uncertain about what the singer sung, perhaps some Cantonese songs written by unknown songwriters, nevertheless, the graceful and tender voice of the singer underpinned the songs and moreover, the singer’s cooperation with the keyboard player seemed like they had been playing together for decades. There were two in total. The vocal wore a grey jeans-style suit, while the keyboard player looked like a student wearing a red hoodie. The singer was a showman, leaping up from his bench after every song, pumping his fists, pointing into the audience, blowing kisses, trying to goose up the already enthusiastic crowd.

Then

But it’s the songs that take center stage. I could still detect a change in emotional temperature through the whole song. The song followed a verse-chorus structure and used the image of a man who casted aside worldly cares and lived independently, to profess the singer’s deep and undying passion. The vocal followed a strategy of keeping it simple, avoiding “gimmicks” and foregrounding his sincere delivery of the lyrics. The musical accompaniment for the singer’s affectionate voice is delicate, opening with monophony of a solo keyboard. Then, just as the chorus arrives, the whole rhythm section joins in, energetically supporting the emotional climax of the whole song. This structure repeats with the same pattern of quiet reflection giving way to the more explicitly emotional chorus, which is repeated at the