Nick Joaquin wrote about Calle Morayta in old Sampaloc, Manila, thus: “Remember Catalina Zandueta when she played a gorgeous Aida? Or the really heartbreaking ‘Madame Butterfly’ of Dalisay Aldaba? Or the great Alexandra Danilova dancing the ‘Dying Swan?’ Or the Manila Symphony Orchestra in concert doing the ‘Brahms No. 2’? Or the premiere of Leonor Orosa’s ‘Noli Dance Suite’ (“Salome, Sisa, Maria Clara”)? Or Alfredo Lozano or José Cubiles, to play Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’? Or everyone’s astonishment when Martha Graham displayed her ballet à la mode? Or Remedios Bosch Jimenez singing Leonora to Arrigo Pola’s ‘Trovatore?’”