Cebu inaugurates new symphonic orchestra
CEBU City’s new symphony orchestra is the Classic Youth Orchestra (CYO). It was recently launched with an inagural concert at Centerstage, SM Seaside City, Cebu City.
CEBU City’s new symphony orchestra is the Classic Youth Orchestra (CYO). It was recently launched with an inagural concert at Centerstage, SM Seaside City, Cebu City.
A new Cebu City-based symphony orchestra was recently born with the launching of the Visayas Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Korean conductor Juliet Kim at the Marcelo Fernan Cebu Press Center.
Unlike a lot of other Broadway musicals, in “Chicago,” the band isn’t hidden in the orchestra pit, they’re right onstage with the actors.
On many levels, a programming that stays within the territory of the First Viennese School is fiendishly difficult to pull off. The justification of the period relies heavily on the formulations and definitions put forward by scholars from Kiesewetter in the 19th century to Sandberger, Adler and Fischer during the musicological revolution of the 20th.
After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center once she was released.
It was when Gerard Salonga was playing in a corporate show for the First Philippine Holdings’ (FPH) 50th anniversary that he learned of the plan of ABS-CBN to establish a symphony orchestra.
Months before the Manila production of “The Phantom of the Opera” opened at the CCP, auditions were held for Filipino musicians who wanted to be part of the orchestra.
You can call them “Phantom of the Opera” veterans. Associate director Arthur Masella, musical supervisor Guy Simpson and producer Tim McFarlane, managing director of The Really Useful Company Asia Pacific, have devoted about two decades of their lives to bringing the longest-running show on Broadway to audiences around the world.
The concert at the PICC Hall on July 2 of the “Legendary Glenn Miller Orchestra” was remarkable for both content and context.
Giving from the heart and quiet acts of selflessness are qualities of Zenaida “Nedy” Tantoco, president of Rustan’s Commercial Corp., that have endeared her to many. Although she sought to share her energies through charity, she ended up supporting the arts.
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