The music of Russian masters Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov and Dmitri Shostakovich took center stage in the third concert of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) at Banco de Oro’s Francisco Santiago Hall. Pianist Victor Asuncion was the featured soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
So, after 50 years, Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” has been toppled from its pedestal by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” as The Greatest Film of All Time.
Since she discovered the calming effect of painting five years ago, Baboo Mondoñedo has chalked up eight solo exhibitions, the latest being “Mind’s Eye,” a collection of 30 watercolor paintings at Alliance Française in Makati City.
A favorite movie of Michael Cacnio is “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” the biographical film on Michelangelo, so it comes as no surprise he looks up to the Renaissance master who said of his creative process: “I saw an angel in the marble and I carved to set him free.”
In the past 25 years, the Douglas Nierras Powerdance (DNPD) company has always distinguished itself with its heart-wrenching choreography interpreted with rawness, dynamism and soulful expression. Fresh from its European concert touer, DNPD will hold its homecoming concert, “Sayaw ng Puso at Kaluluwa: Ang Pagbabalik” on Sep. 29 at Meralco Theater.
I have been reading the poetry collections of Pablo Neruda and e.e. cummings. I also have the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi that I’ve been chipping away for months now.
Three new studies published in the United States this weekend reaffirm a link between sweet soda and fruit drinks to an epidemic of obesity that is sweeping the United States.
AHA Chef Instructor Joey Carpo shows how to cook and prepare General Tso’s Chicken Wings .
As the world’s biggest yacht, codenamed Project Azzam, nears completion under a veil of secrecy in Germany, the trend for ever larger floating palaces was on full display at the Monaco Yacht Show this week.
On Hong Kong’s traffic-heavy streets, horns blare as speeding red taxis, double-decker buses and public minivans shuttle people to-and-from work. But there is one thing missing – bicycles.
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