The Music Office Youth Choir (MOYC) and the Music Office Children's Choir (MOCC) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will jointly perform in an annual concert entitled "Choral Potpourri" at the Theatre of Hong Kong City Hall at 3pm on December 4 (Sunday), offering the audience a programme of various tuneful pieces.
 
     Dr Angelina Au, Lai Wing-yan, Yau Man-ching and Kobe Ip will be the conductors and pianists. The choirs will present choral favourites from various places, including the African traditional walking song "Obwisana (Goin' to Ghana)"; "Georgia on My Mind", which expresses reminiscences towards Georgia in United States; and the Finnish traditional folk song "Water Under Snow Is Weary".
 
     Furthermore, the choirs will perform religious pieces by prolific composers, including Gibbons' "O Clap Your Hands", Mendelssohn's piece for men's chorus "Beati Mortui (Blessed are the Dead, Op. 115, No. 1)" and Rutter's Christmas carol "What Sweeter Music".

     Established in 1980, the MOYC now has 88 members with ages ranging from 14 to 25. In addition to performing in local concerts, the choir has toured overseas including in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and Austria. In the Singapore International Choral Festival 2016, the choir won Gold Awards in the Equal Voices, Mixed Voices and Musica Sacra categories and was also named the champion in the Equal Voices and Mixed Voices categories.
 
     Since its establishment in 1981, the MOCC's membership has grown to 71, with ages ranging from 8 to 15. The choir has performed both Western and Chinese choral works, some of which were local premieres and operettas.
 
     Concert tickets priced at $40 and $60 are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2796 1003 or 2582 5311 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/musicoffice.

Ends/Friday, November 4, 2016
Issued at HKT 12:00

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