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Tressel and Hong Kong's own Renee Fung. Other instrumentalists included Julian Bream on guitar and lute, Harold Chaney playing the harpsichord, virtuoso xylophonist Yoichi Hiraoka from Japan, the Engel Family and Ludwig Hoelscher on the 'cello accompanied by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Choral works were in the main confined to presentations by local choirs, the highlights being the performances of The Creation by the Hong Kong Oratorio Society and The Messiah by the Com- bined Christian Choir. Other local choirs giving concerts at the City Hall included the Robin Boyle Singers (a newly formed group specializing in unaccompanied works), the Harmonia Chorus, the Choral Group, the South China Choir, and the Melba Girls' Choir. Of the two visiting choirs the Little Singers of the Wooden Cross came from Macau, whilst the Innsbrucker Kammerchor came from Austria. In a lighter vein the Hong Kong Singers staged the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Iolanthe. Solo vocal recitals were given at the City Hall by the following Hong Kong artists: Nancy Zee, Ho Kwan Ching, Ella Kiang, Susanna Chow, Karen Leach and Ellie Mao whilst joint recitals were presented by Tien Ming En and Tien Joy, Ma Kuo Lin and Karen Sun, and Julia Wong and Sandra Foong. Overseas singers to present concerts here included German soprano Carla Henius and mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer from the Berlin Opera.
Ballet was presented professionally by the Theatre d'Art du Ballet and Jose Limon and his Dance Company. Local productions were presented by the Patricia Denholm School of Ballet (Dancing Shoes), the Jenny School of Ballet, Mr Alfred Lie (Sea Fever), the Chinese Reform Association and the Hok Yau Dancing Club. In a category of its own must go the delightful performances of Daniel Llord's puppets which introduced a medium of entertainment rare to Hong Kong. Popular overseas entertainers who played at the City Hall included Victor Borge, Eartha Kitt, Joyce Grenfell, Patti Page, Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis, Jr, and Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Local enter- tainers were featured in matinee shows put on for the young people of Hong Kong by various commercial concerns.
In the field of European spoken drama, little professional work was presented with the notable exception of a recital by Mme Françoise Delille of the Comédie Française and M. Jacques