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The Music Office promotes knowledge and appreciation of music in the community, especially among young people. Throughout the year, it ran an Instrumental Music Training Scheme for 4 659 trainees, along with 19 youth orchestras, bands and choirs which together had 1 462 members. It also organised 281 short-term music interest courses for 2 925 participants, and another 442 music-related activities which attracted around 267 000 people. These included a music camp, several youth music events, and a variety of educational programmes for students and the community.
In 2017, the Music Office marked its four decades of service with a year-long series of celebration programmes. Highlights included the Music Office 40th Anniversary Gala, which brought together distinguished alumni and current members from different orchestras, bands and choirs and was broadcast on TV and radio; joint Sky in the Water concerts featuring a massive orchestra of around 800 young musicians; a Music Spectacular concert which presented youth orchestras from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao; and the Passing on the Torch series in which the annual concerts of the Music Office’s three flagship orchestras and two choirs were presented. A celebratory roving exhibition also went on display at various government venues and public libraries across the territory.
