When Pilar Benavides Estrada joined the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in 1945, she was only 15, the youngest member to be part of its first post-liberation concert mounted in the
For 14-year-old violin student Pilar Benavides, it was a circuitous journey from her wartime home on Gastambide Street, Sampaloc, to the historic post-liberation concert of May 9, 1945 in the
The oldest surviving member of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) that mounted the historic 1945 concert to amid the ruins of the Second World War will attend the reenactment of the historic production at the Meralco Theater on March 13, 2015.
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