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After spending a month in Europe watching acts like Friendly Fires, Metronomy, Arcade Fire, The Streets, The Strokes, and Big Audio Dynamite, among others, in two of the biggest music festivals in France and Spain with musician Rico Blanco, I thought nothing would excite me anymore when we returned to Manila.
The Cebu Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was formally launched on Dec. 10 at the Cebu Cultural Center of the University of the Philippines Cebu College. There was a matinee at 3 p.m., and a gala at 8 p.m. The CSO was masterfully conducted by Roberto del Rosario, himself an excellent arranger who did some of the concert’s felicitous orchestrations.
