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Monday, July 23, 1973
FINAL REHEARSALS FOR YOUTH ORCHESTRA
The Hong Kong Youth Orchestra, which is preparing to take part in
an international festival in Scotland next week, will have a special visitor
at its rehearsals tomorrow Lady MacLehose.
She will call on the orchestra members at the rehearsal room in
Kowloon Park at noon to listen to their playing and to offer words of encouragement. They leave on Saturday (July 28).
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On August 15. Lady MacLehose will give the 105 member orchestra
her personal support 75 boys and 30 girls from various Hong Kong schools by attending a concert in Aberdeen, Scotland where the International Festival
of Youth Orchestras will be held.
The programme for the concert comprises "Egmont Overture" by Beethoven, "Rondino" a modern work composed by David Gwilt of the Chinese University and dedicated to Lady MacLehose "The Butterfly Concerto" a Chinese violin concerto, Ballet Suite No. 1" by Shostakovitch and "London
Symphony" by Haydn.
The orchestra's conductor is Miss M. Money, Inspector (Instrumental
Music) of the Education Department.
During the two-week festival, members of the Hong Kong Youth
Orchestra will be selected together with participants from Canada, `Czechoslo- vakia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Rumania, the United Kingdon,
Japan and the United States.
The best .****