香港總督府
L/M 138/73
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
19 April 1973
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Sir,
HONG KONG'S FIRST ARTS FESTIVAL
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Hong Kong has just completed its
first Arts Festival. It was a striking departure
for Hong Kong as well as a particularly happy event,
and I hasten to report.
Hong Kong has for the
past few years had a festival of its own. But
this has been in the tradition of Mardi Gras or
the Lord Mayor's Show a riot of colour and noise
but essentially low-brow. This year, for the first
time, an Arts Festival was held similar to that in,
say, Edinburgh. It lasted for four weeks from 26
February to 24 March.
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For this period it was possible night
after night to choose between a magnificent selection
of artists which included Margot Fonteyn, Yehudi
Menuhin, Flemming Flindt and Vivi Gelka, John Pritchard
and the London Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa and the New
Japanese Philharmonic, Ida Haendel, Fou Ts'ong, the
Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Classical Javanese Dancers,
etc. Such names drew the audiences, and for the first
time in its existence Hong Kong found itself for a month
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME, KT, MP
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