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by Carlo Cillario, directed by Anthony Besch and designed by Peter Rice. During June and July the Summer Music Festival covered a wide repertoire, including performances of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, conducted by Denis de Coteau, Academy composers and the Chinese Music Department were featured in the festival.

The School of Technical Arts was involved in all the dance, drama and opera productions, with design and management students contributing significantly to the success of many of them. The school also organised several exhibitions of student work during the year, and participated in a study tour of Italy. Television courses continued to develop, with student crews working on a drama production under the direction of visiting British Broadcasting Corporation producer Ronald Smedley.

All four schools combined to produce Hong Kong Heartbeat which was performed in the Barbican Hall as part of a Hong Kong promotion in London in January. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales attended one of the performances and met members of the company. A revised version of Heartbeat was taken to Canada in October, and performed in Calgary and Ottawa.

The Foundation of Businesses in Support of the Arts

Business for Art is the working name for the Foundation of Businesses in Support of the -Arts, a non-profit organisation established in 1990 by a group of prominent business people in Hong Kong. Its main objective is to encourage, assist and promote local arts in all forms and also to encourage the business community to support the arts through supporting art projects which would benefit the local art community, particularly up- and-coming young artists.

Business for Art has succeeded in matching several artists seeking funds to business sponsors wishing to sponsor arts projects. It also assisted local artists in packaging their talents in order to attract sponsorship, at the same time ensuring that the needs of business sponsors were recognised.

Business for Art presented the gala premiere of 42nd Street, a world-renowned Broadway musical at the Lyric Theatre of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in March.

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Hong Kong Arts Centre is an independent, non-profit organisation founded in 1977 to promote arts and culture. Its funding derives from rental income, box office, corporate sponsorship and donations from benevolent individuals. It incorporates the 440-seat Shouson Theatre, the 200-seat Lim Por Yen Film Theatre, the 100-seat McAulay Studio, the Pao Sui Loong and Pao Yue Kong Galleries, the Atrium Gallery, rehearsal rooms, art and craft studios, music practice rooms and classrooms.

As a multi-discipline organisation, Hong Kong Arts Centre offers a platform for contemporary work in the performing, visual and cinematic arts as well as featuring new, avant garde and multi-media art forms. It encourages non-established artists of all disciplines and the development of indigenous art forms. Substantial resources are dedicated to outreach work in arts education, with a view to promoting appreciation of all art forms and activities.