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The 1979 Hong Long Arts Jestival will be the longest biggest and the most spectacular so far. Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Hubert Willis, Associate Artistic Director of the Festival, said next year's festival will last for five weeks, from February 4, instead of four weeks as in previous years. There will be nearly 100 evenings of entertainment in the pecked programme to be staged at five venues. And, for the first time in its seven-year history, the festival will include a world premiere of a completely new ballet at its opening performance, Hr. Willis said.
The ballet will be especially choreographed for the occasion by Birgit Cullberg of Sweden and performed by her ballet company. Other overseas performing groups will include the Prospect Theatre Company and Chichester Festival Theatre Company from the United Kingdom, the world-famous Salsburg Marionettes Puppet Opera groups from Austria, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from Holland, the Jean Fran** cois Paillard Chamber Orchestra from France, the Teddy Wilson jazz trio from New York and the Italian clowns of the Colon- baioni brothers. There will also be concerts by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Perform- as well as performances by the Garrison Players. ances of Cantonese opera, Chiu Chow opera and Soochow lyrics will also feature in the festival. The 1979 festival, which has become a fixture in the local cultural calender, is
The expected to cost HK$3.45 million (£365,000) to stage. Honey comes from the government, which provides a HK1 million (0405,000) subsidy, an Urban Council grant of HK2500,000 (£52,632), doticas and the proceeds from ticket sales,
COMFUTER TRAPPIO CONTROL
The Hong Kong Tublic Works Department is considering the installation of a computerised traffic control system for Hong Kong Island. Mr. Fong Chun-Wan, Acting Principal Government Highway Engineer, said that a similar system had been in operation in the western part of Kowloon for about 18 months. He said the computer had proved valuable in making more economical use of the road system, and added that the method currently in use on Hong Kong Island was not as efficient. Mr. Fong also said that the government was thinking of opening a new route, possibly a tunnel, linking Repluse Fay and Deep Water Bay on the southern side of Hong Kong Island,
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