Stephen Hough: “Penang can make money out of the arts if it does it right”

By Andrea Filmer

January 2020 PENANG PROFILE
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Stephen Hough live. Photo: Robert Torres.
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Stephen Hough is used to being solo – both on and off stage. Strolling alone through a side entrance of Dewan Sri Pinang in an unassuming blazer over a plaid shirt, Hough may have been easily mistaken for a visitor or tourist; and while he has played both roles at one time or another in Penang, on that evening of August 24, he was much more.Hough performed with the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), delighting the audience with his interpretation of...

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Andrea Filmer

is a freelance journalist who has lived in the US and Australia but, for reasons unknown to herself, finds it impossible to call anywhere but Penang home.


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