In my excitement about the gold and silver medals won by the Las Piñas Boys Choir, I failed to notice that there’s another Philippine choir that won another gold medal in the World Choir Games held in Graz, Austria last week.
The Kilyawan Boys Choir under the baton of Mark Anthony Carpio also won first place in Popular Choral Music-Vocal Ensembles.
Congratulations!
The Las Piñas Boys Choir won the gold medal in the 5th World Choir Games, children’s category, held in Graz, Austria last week.
It also won the silver medal in the Musica Sacra Category.
Pablo Tariman’s Great Performances Series concluded in a dazzling performance by Russian pianist Ilya Rashkoskiy early this month at the Philamlife Theatre.
It was a return engagement for Ilya, whose spectacular 2006 performance sent Filipino music lovers asking for more. As expected, Ilya did not disappoint fans the second time around.
His December 8 concert was dedicated to dance. He started with Frederick Chopin’s “Waltzes”, followed by Alexander Scriabin’s “Valse”. He closed the first half with an energetic performance of Maurice Ravel’s La Valse that left the audience breathless.With all the musical pyrotechnics, it was like New Year in early December.
Classical music impresario Pablo Tariman gave Metro Manilans an early Christmas gift in the person of Alvaro Pierri, guitarist par excellence last Tuesday. On Saturday, he will be presenting Russian pianist Ilya Rashkovskiy at the Philamlife Theater on United Nation’s Avenue at 8 p.m.
Pierri’s performance was simply awesome, an exhilarating experience. Just what we needed in these troubled times. He started with Nicolo Paganini’s Grande Sonata, followed by Miguel Llobet’s Preludio y Mazurca, and Federico Moreno Torroba’s Sonatina.
For the second part of the program, he dispensed with William Walton’s Five Bagatelles that was in the program and instead did Two Pieces by Vila-Lobos.
The Great Performance Series sponsored by the Philippine American Life Insurance Company and Manila Pavilion Hotel will close with the Manila debut of world-acclaimed classical…
Following story by Gerald Naval in Malaya. Picture borrowed from Ivan Henares without his permission.
FORMER Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) general managers Angelito Banayo and Nixon Kua yesterday asked Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano to bring charges against current PTA chief Robert Dean Barbers at the Office of the Ombudsman and the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission over the sports complex Barbers is building outside the walls of Intramuros.
Banayo and Kua said the construction is illegal and is putting the centuries-old walls of Intramuros in peril.
Romanian violin superstar Alexandru Tomescu, winner of several international violin competitions including the Paganini Competitions in Italy and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, will pay tribute to Filipino violin greats when he returns at the Philamlife Theater Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8 p.m. with pianist Mary Anne Espina.
The February 24 concert caps the Great Performance Series sponsored by the Philippine American Life Insurance Company and Manila Pavilion Hotel. The return engagement is dedicated to three distinguished Filipino violinists namely Ernesto Vallejo, Carmencita
Lozada and Redentor Romero.