The Leisure & Cultural Services Department will present two concerts in early October to pay tribute to renowned film and television music composers Percy Faith and Henry Mancini.

Acclaimed local musician Andrew Tuason will take the stage with his orchestra to perform 40 classic easy-listening and film songs composed or arranged by the two music composers with ethereal melodies and rhythms.

Rising in the 1950s, Mr Faith and Mr Mancini have collaborated with various famous singers and artists. Their easy-listening music, movie and television theme songs still linger among music lovers.

In the first concert on October 2, the orchestra will play works composed or arranged by Mr Faith, such as the movie theme of A Summer Place which won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960 as well as music from the Oscar-winning films Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, Gone with the Wind and more.

The second concert on October 3 will feature the works of Mr Mancini, including the familiar rhythms of The Pink Panther, the film song Days of Wine & Roses that won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1963 as well as Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1964, the original soundtrack from the movie Charade, and Mancini's version of the classic song from the film Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid and many more. Guest singer Maria Rosa Tuason will perform with her alluring voice in the two concerts.

The two concerts will be staged at 8pm at Hong Kong City Hall. Tickets are available at URBTIX. Call 3166 1288 for telephone bookings.

For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, call 2268 7321 or visit the programme website.