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“Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.” —Vironika Tugaleva, www.tinybuddha.com
At the First Draft group of writers reunion with Gilda Cordero Fernando, I felt that her facial recognition of some persons, even those close to her, was going. Her oft-asked query was a wide-eyed, “Sino ka (Who are you)?”
For his only appearance on Philippine stage this year, tenor Arthur Espiritu, who’s much in demand in European opera houses, is doing love duets with three sopranos on July 27, 7:30 p.m., at the Spotlight Power Mac in Circuit Makati.
It is hard not to hear the trace of an eager schoolboy in the raspy voice of this octogenarian who paints, enough to fill a retrospective twice in his lifetime, and writes articles and books.
The vocal ensemble Viva Voce Voice Lab is more known in the concert circuit for promoting and propagating opera and classical music. But on Feb. 23, it is diversifying with an event billed as “Viva Voce on the Great White Way: A Journey Through the Golden Age of Broadway,” a one-night performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Power Mac Center Spotlight, Circuit Lane, Circuit Makati.
Actor-director Mae Paner, aka Juana Change, has become one of the increasingly rare voices of conscience in the country, but especially so with her portrayal of four characters in the monologue “Tao Po.”
I couldn’t think of a better way to spend the residual of that day than with friend and mentor Gilda Cordero Fernando, the writer who defies categorization because she’s in a class of her own.
When faced with a blank Microsoft document and a blinking cursor, I can often feel invisible drops of blood, not even sweat, leaking out of my head.
Instead of her usual jampacked major concert at Cultural Center of the Philippines and similar capacious venues, Cecile Licad is performing in a southern mansion, a church, a cinema, a convention center, a modest-sized auditorium and a carabao center.
