Arts practitioners worry about creative freedom and lack of opportunities to appeal authorities’ decisions.

Performers who tackle Schubert’s piano sonatas need to understand how to bring out the layering of the composer’s musical ideas. Paul Lewis did that in spades in his concluding recitals in Hong Kong.

Busy Hong Kong singer, songwriter and producer JNYBeatz talks about crossing genres and inspiring new producers in his latest project, Vision Music, Hong Kong’s first beatmaking school.

Make & Believe, a mixed-media exhibition at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun, blends art and technology, with moving pieces that prompt viewers to ask what is real and what imaginary.

Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov were on the same page throughout their performance of Beethoven’s 10 sonatas for violin and piano, their playing equal parts brilliant and illuminating.

Applications are being accepted for single and double rooms at Po Leung Kuk’s 27-storey youth hostel in Yuen Long.

Former child prodigy Kit Armstrong is having something of a midlife crisis at 30 as he looks to make a contribution to classical music beyond touring as a concert pianist.

Composer Daniel Lo has created a multimedia concert based on poems about the pandemic from writer Ho Fuk-yan, on subjects that Hong Kong readers in particular can easily identify with.

New work offers audiences an unusual sensory experience – singers’ performances are projected onto screens, while a “moon” pulses strobe lights. The performances are polished and the music accessible.

Forget cackling witches casting spells, ‘Witches Own Without (W.O.W.)’, at art space Current Plans, examines magic in our modern world as a way for us to overcome contemporary problems.

‘I couldn’t put the book down,’ says Diana Liao of German astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 17th century fantasy written in Latin. It led her to write an opera, Somnium, with composer Steve Hui.

Education Bureau says secondary schools must ensure 90 per cent of students are triple vaccinated if they plan to hold full-day classes on campus from November.

Authorities asked directors of short film Losing Sight of A Longed Place to edit out one-second scene showing ‘illegal occupation’.

Education chief Kevin Yeung says centres will be set up at the government’s isolation facility at Penny’s Bay for exam candidates who are close contacts of Covid-19 patients or infected themselves.