2015 Joints Concerts of Music Office Bands And Orchestras (Junior Groups)
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More than 900 young musicians from 14 bands and orchestras will perform an array of Chinese and Western pieces at four joint concerts to be presented by the Music Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department in April and May.
The first concert, which will showcase junior groups, will feature the Hong Kong Junior Chamber Ensemble, the Music Office Junior Chinese Orchestra and the Hong Kong Children’s Symphonic Band, and will be held at 3pm on April 12 (Sunday) at the Auditorium of Kwai Tsing Theatre. Under the batons of conductors Maxine Cheung, Dr Joseph Kam, Eddy Tse, Tsui Ying-fai, Cheung Hiu-fai, Janice Ho and Palas Chan, the musicians will play a variety of Chinese and Western music including Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus”, Lo Leung-fai’s “Spring” and John Powell’s animation tune “How to Train Your Dragon” arranged by Sean O’Loughlin.
Repertoire:Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (I Praeludium - Allegro Vivace)
Composer：Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Repertoire：Ave Verum Corpus, KV 618
Composer：Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Repertoire：Symphony No. 21, KV 134 (I Allegro, II Andante, III Menuetto, IV Allegro)
Composer：Li Minxiong
Repertoire：Great Harvest
Composer：Lo Leung-fai
Repertoire：Spring
Composer：nil
Repertoire:Somewhere Far Away - Medley of Folksongs from China's West (I Dance Music of the Wagon-Driver, II Somewhere Far Away, III Lift up Your Veil, IV Dance of Youth
Chinese Folk Songs/ arr. Gu Guanren)
Composer：Richard Saucedo
Repertoire：Flight of the Thunderbird
Composer：John Powell
Repertoire：How to Train Your Dragon (arranged by Sean O'Loughlin)
Composer：James Barnes
Repertoire：Yorkshire Ballad
Composer：Bruce Fraser
Repertoire：Carnival of Insects (I March of the Ants- The Thin Black Line, II Sticks Insects and Crickets, III Insectivores, V The Bug Parade)
Composer：Randall Standridge
Repertoire：Ruckus
Conductor：Maxine Cheung; Joseph Kam;Eddy Tse; Tsui Ying-fai; Cheung Hiu-fai;Janice Ho; Palas Chan
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2015" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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