Dr Ng Kah-ming* and his Charivari Agreable were recently interviewed by BBC’s Radio Three. This will give a great boost to the reputation of the authority on Baroque and Medieval Music who lectures at Oxford University on Early Music. I remember hearing about this remarkable harpsichordist who had trained a group of housewives to sing in the choir that he had formed. This was in the eighties. I went to KL to hear their performance which was in a church and came away very impressed. I was astonished to learn very much later that Kah-ming had graduated from Monash, Australia as a bachelor of engineering. When he last visited in Penang I was pleased that this PJ man talked to his children in Cantonese; they live in England and have a German mother but he does not want them to forget that they are Cantonese. Kah-ming has been director of the Charivari Agreable since 1983.
The group has just produced a CD of Torelli’s original Brandenburg Concertos. Nicholas Kenyon of “The Observer” wrote that the playing was plangent and impressive, quite hard edged, and added wind give an extra lift to the textures
You can hear the BBC interview by clicking on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h4dbx/In_Tune_Sean_Rafferty/
* I copied the photo from his alumni magazine
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Can anyone tell me what this plant is?
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