The International Choir and Orchestra of HCM City will perform in the Forgotten Gems concert at the Conservatory of Music on May 24 and 25.

The concert will present masterpieces from classical composers including Franz Joseph Haydn's Great Organ Mass; Randall Thompson's Frostiana, a setting of seven poems by Robert Frost; John Rutter's Gloria; and the final movement of Alessandro Scarlatti's Dixit Dominus.

All proceeds from two shows will be donated to two children's charities, the Loreto Vietnam-Australia Programme and Poussieres de Vie (Dust of Life). Tickets are VND490,000 (US$23.5). The shows will begin at 7:30pm at the conservatory at 112 Nguyen Du Street in District 1.-VNS