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George Harliono, the former Indonesian-British piano prodigy who has been astonishing concert hall audiences in Europe, the US and Asia, is set to impress Manila on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Ayala Museum with a program that ranges from Beethoven’s “The Tempest” or Piano Sonata No. 17 Op. 31 to Stravinsky’s Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka.
Macli-ing’s famous words, on land ownership: “You ask if we own the land and mock us saying, “Where is your title?’ When we ask the meaning of your words, you answer with taunting arrogance, ‘Where are the documents to prove that you own the land?’ Titles? Documents? Proof of ownership? Such arrogance to say that you own the land, when you are owned by it! How can you own that which outlives you? Only the race owns the land because the race lives forever. To claim a place is the birthright of everyone. Even the lowly animals have their own place. How much more when we talk of human beings?”
