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YOUNG MUSICIANS GET AWARDS
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THE 1985 HONG KONG YOUNG MUSICIANS' AWARDS, A MAJOR ANNUAL EVENT IN BOTH WESTERN AND CHINESE MUSIC, ENDED LAST (SUNDAY) NIGHT, AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF KEEN COMPETITION.
THE WESTERN MUSIC FINALS WERE STAGED LAST NIGHT AT THE CITY HALL THEATRE. THE CHINESE MUSIC FINALS HAD BEEN HELD ON THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY (MARCH 17).
THE CONTEST, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE MUSIC OFFICE, RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG AND THE COMPOSERS AND AUTHORS SOCIETY OF HONG KONG (CASH), IS AIMED AT UNCOVERING YOUNG TALENT AND AT RAISING THE STANDARD OF COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE OF SERIOUS MUSIC.
AT A PRESENTATION CEREMONY HELD LAST NIGHT, MR PATRICK WILLIAMSON, THE COMMISSIONER FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, SAID THAT THE COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES PRESENTED AT THE FINALS WERE FINE EXAMPLES OF THE MUSICAL TALENT THAT ABOUNDS IN HONG KONG.
THE ORGANISERS WERE KEEN TO PROVIDE YOUNG MUSICIANS WITH THE CHANCE TO DEMONSTRATE THE IR TALENTS AND TO STIMULATE THEIR INTEREST IN COMPOSITION OR IN PERFORMANCE, HE SAID.
+OUR INTEREST IS IN RAISING STANDARDS AND WE WILL DO OUR
PART TO PROVIDE THE INCENTIVES, HE SAID.
CHIEF ADJUDICATOR OF THE (WESTERN MUSIC) COMPOSITION CATEGORY, PROFESSOR DAVID GWILT SAID THAT THE GENERAL STANDARD OF COMPOSITION WAS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR'S BUT MORE ORIGINALITY, INVENTION AND PERSONAL ITY WAS NEEDED.
THE FIRST THREE WINNERS OF BOTH CATEGORIES - COMPOSITION AND ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE OF WESTERN MUSIC RECEIVED CASH PRIZES OF $6 000, $3 000 AND $1 000 RESPECTIVELY FROM MR STUART WILKINSON, THE DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING AND MR MALCOLM BARNETT, CHAIRMAN OF CASH. SIMILAR PRIZES HAD BEEN GIVEN TO WINNERS OF THE CHINESE MUSIC FINALS LAST WEEK.
FULL RESULTS OF THE WINNERS AND WINNING PIECES WERE AS FOLLOWS:-
COMPOSITION (CHINESE MUSIC):
+TRIO FOR HSIAO, SHENG AND YANG-CHIN+ BY LAI SHEUNG-PING
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+HOPE+ BY LEUNG CHI-CHEUNG
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+JUBILATION BY CHEUNG KWOK-CHUNG
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