A first: PPO to perform at Carnegie Hall on June 18
IN WHAT has been described as the first time a Manila-based Filipino orchestra has played in the United States, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), a resident company of the Cultural
IN WHAT has been described as the first time a Manila-based Filipino orchestra has played in the United States, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO), a resident company of the Cultural
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, the country’s leading professional orchestra, undertakes a historic project this June by traveling to the United States and performing at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City.
WHEN Otavio Licad Meneses was born in New York in 1987, there was a coup d’état in Manila. That was a year after his parents—pianist Cecile Licad and Brazilian
TRUST Nedy Tantoco of the Rustan’s Group of Companies to come up with a fool-proof fund-raising idea. Noting the popularity of the grand Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B
YOUR mantra for the week: “As I do the things I love, money comes to me easily and effortlessly.”
I first met Cecile Licad at the Cagsawa Church Ruins in Daraga, Albay, one day in August of 1975, when she was only 14. That was the year she performed at St. Agnes Academy in Legazpi City.
To celebrate the start of the new year, world-renowned Filipino pianist Cecile Licad will perform a one-night-only special concert at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ main theater, the Tanghalang
CLASSICAL guitarist Aaron Aguila from the Philippines won first prize in the Jakarta Asean International Guitar Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 22, besting 24 participants from Indonesia, Thailand and
FOR the first time in the 40 years she has been holding homecoming concerts in Manila, pianist Cecile Licad had the luxury of bringing her own piano—a Hamburg Steinway full
THE RARELY heard Piano Concerto No. 1 by Béla Bartók made a triumphant comeback Sept. 19 in the latest season concert of Spokane Symphony in Washington, with a standing ovation
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