This series began at Dr Cham's time when he invited the Singapore ESSO oil to donate to support a series of concerts by individual or a small group of musicians to perform at NTI. He then asked Eugene D at NIE to administer this. Eugene selected a 350 seater lecture theatre as the venue. This LT 19 is located at NTU but it is easily accessible from NIE.through a covered staircase.
Subsequently ESSO Singapore has become part of Exxon-Mobile Singapore. Their senior management continued to support this. But instead of having just music performances, Eugene had broaden these concert series and called this Explorations of the Arts Series. The music performances continued to be held in LT 19 and administered by CELT's capable PA Vivien.
Soon Exxon-Mobil Singapore decided to discontinue their support. Eugene approached me to continue the support. I agreed to support only the LT 19 music performances and call these also the Dorothy Cheung Concert Series. There will be 7 performances a year. Eugene can decide on the type of music and the musicians as long as the attendance is good.
[last update 29/9/13]
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