A precedent-setting “Basically Brahms” program will feature the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) Oct. 14 concert. Noted Filipino pianist Ingrid Sala Santamaria will be the soloist in the Second Piano Concerto
It is a supreme irony of our time that Filipino musicians outside the subsidized existence of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and ABS-CBN Philharmonic are forced to beg for space for
The first day of August found us trying out an informal concert venue for an evening of flute and classical guitar at Conspiracy Café in Quezon City. Featured artists were
Recently at the Little Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, 16-year old Sting Asistores was soloist in Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under
What may well be considered the concert of the year was performed at the Meralco Theater on Dec. 14 by the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) presenting an all Beethoven program.
ON A Saturday with nonstop monsoon rain battering Metro Manila and the nearby provinces, the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) under Darrell Ang survived its latest season concert and received a hair-raising standing ovation at the Power Mac Center Spotlight at Circuit Makati last Aug. 13.
THE DAILY news is full of statistics of the dead and the dying. But, still, I turn to live classical music. So many things these days do not favor going
THE SPIRIT of Western theater, especially the works of the great Anton Chekhov, and that of Japan’s Kabuki theater, animated “Ang Dressing Room,” an outstanding production of the 40th theater season of Dulaang UP at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater at UP-Diliman.
“OUR SEASON gala concerts are our major project. You know, we are called the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO), so we should be able to regularly play and showcase the standard orchestral repertoire, the Beethovens and other classical composers who have written music specifically for a symphony orchestra.”
By Nico Pascual Photography by Nathan Bajar There’s a pivotal scene in the web series Mozart in the Jungle, where the main character, Hailey Rotledge, drops everything just to try
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