* Here are what the critics had to say *
* Floating Bridge *
Excerpt from South China Morning Post by Tom Borek, October 25, 1996
Excavating the past to seek the future.
The exploration of coincidence is one musician's journey of discovery.
"Like a California cook, he mixes ingredients from all cultures to make a stimulating concoction."
Valeirie C Doran, the librettist, has written lyrics in Chinese and English, in the form of a diary that might have been written by either Kung or Liang, recording events as they might have seen them.
We are privy to their thoughts, we accompany them, we get to know them.
Kung has assembled an exceptional group of talented musicians from US and Hong Kong for piece.
There is Robert Een, an American and modern-day renaissance man, who is a cellist and singer and has composed for dance film and theatre. Also from US are Patti Ontario, a key figure in the New York new music scene, and Peter Jarvis, a percussionist and critically acclaimed interpreter of modern works by Milton Babbitt and John Cage.
Kung has been a crucial leader in the vanguard of contemporary music in Hong Kong.
His music is not the arcane result of cerebral puttering, as is unfortunately too common in Hong Kong composition. Like a California cook, he mixes ingredients from all cultures to make a stimulating concoction.
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