One of the most definitive novels about 9/11 becomes one of the year’s most cathartic cinematic experiences as Warner Bros. brings to the screen “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.
Sipat Lawin Ensemble has collaborated with several Australian playwrights to develop a performance adaptation of “Battle Royale”—the controversial novel by Koushun Takami that spawned a movie version and a manga version.
Filipino-American tenor Arthur Espiritu, 36, is a new name in the Philippine performing arts scene where opera productions come few and far between.
Poor Violetta must be the original “prostitute with a heart of gold.” For the uninitiated, Violetta is the tragic heroine of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” (The Strayed One), based on the novel “La Damme aux Camelias,” by Alexander Dumas.
There’s a lot more to music and the arts in Cebu other than the Sinulog Festival.
Angono, “Art Capital of the Philippines,” Antipolo City and other Rizal towns hosted the Philippine Visual Arts Festival (PVAF), part of the National Arts Month celebration, last Feb. 17 to 21.
The saxophone is perhaps the least known instrument of the wind family. It is a prominent fixture of band music to date as it was before after its maker Adolphe Sax had invented it in 1846. Many think it is a brass instrument owing to the fact that its body is made of brass. Like the clarinet, it is however sounded through a reed, not by blowing the mouthpiece against the brass instrument.
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