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On 13th March, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra announced that Music Director Jaap van Zweden's contract with the orchestra is going to be extended. The new contract will last through to the end of the 2018/19 season. The orchestra also has something else to celebrate. This year marks its fortieth anniversary. Ben Pelletier went to speak to Jaap van Zweden at the beginning of the current season, as he was preparing to conduct Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Maps can be both science and art. Of course, they have to be accurate, to show people how to get where they want to go. But historical maps in particular are also artistic renderings of reality. An exhibition at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum shows us one of the great historical maps, in the exhibition "Mapping Ming China's Maritime World -- The Selden Map and Other Treasures from the University of Oxford", which was recently opened by former governor Chris Patten.
As the weather of the past few days has reminded us, living in the city isn't always an infallible defence against the worst the weather has to offer. But although the weekend's hail storms caused plenty of damage, that's not a lot compared with what Hong Kong has experienced in the past at the hands of typhoons As an exhibition at the the Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage reminds us, the first storm photographed in 1874 not only dealt a heavy blow to Hong Kong's economy, it killed more than 2,000 people. And there have been worse. A 1937 typhoon killed 11,000.
Last week, O-Kai, a young a cappella group from Taiwan, sang a traditional Taiwanese folk song in our studio. This week' we're heading to the other side of the world, and to Oxford University, for more a cappella singing. And the music couldn't be more different. The Oxford Gargoyles were visiting Hong Kong last week, and while they were here they came to the studio to talk to Ben Tse, and to bring us their take on a couple of jazz tunes.
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