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Kong Youth Orchestra and the Victoria Chamber Symphony, and a number of overseas artists such as pianists Alain Motard and Joachim Ludwig, cellist Edmund Kertz, baritone Claus Ocker, the duo Denes Zsigmondy and Anneliese Nissen, and the Berlin Duo. In drama, the City Hall presented the One Man Theatre of Brian D. Barnes and the German mime performer Rolf Scharre. The admis- sion price for all Urban Council City Hall Concerts was $1, and the great majority of the 40 performances presented had full houses.
Apart from the City Hall's own presentations, local musical groups and soloists gave a total of 141 concerts in the City Hall during the year. In drama, three active English amateur groups and many Chinese dramatic groups, amateur and professional, presented 38 productions with 94 performances in the City Hall.
Local impresarios provided entertainment highlights by arranging visits of internationally renowned artists. In the City Hall alone, they presented 20 overseas artists and groups with a total of 25 performances. These included Fou Ts'ong, Vitalia Bousourk, Malcolm Frager, Tamas Vasary and Ida Krehm (pianists), Ruggiero Ricci (violinist), Jean Pierre Rampal and Michel Debost (flautists), Ravi Shankar (sitarist), the Vienna Philharmonic Quartet, the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Ballet, Elizabeth Fuller, the Madrigalchor Munster, The Ventures and the Platters.
EXHIBITIONS
The Museum and Art Gallery in the City Hall organize regular temporary exhibitions from their own collections and loan material. These are designed to cover as far as possible a wide field of interests. Among the more important exhibitions this year were those of paintings by the 20th century Chinese artist Fu Pao-shih (1904–1965), drawn from private collections in Hong Kong, and "The Art of Angkor', an exhibition consisting of rubbings, photo- graphs and actual examples of stone sculptures. An exhibition of considerable local interest was that of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by the Circle Art Group. The group, consisting of eight active young artists of Hong Kong, was invited to give this collective exhibition at the City Hall Art Gallery as a result of their outstanding contribution to the festival of 'Music and Fine