Archive - Arts & Culture

The meeting is a simulation. Yet, it has already taught the participants one important lesson: the idea of consensus, and how difficult it can be to reach, in the trademark decision-making process of ASEAN.

By sheer will and determination, young classical musicians still find a way to survive a pop-dominated musical milieu.

Persons with disability make good assets in the workplace, contrary to a deeply-rooted stigma that they are liabilities.

They gathered in Luneta and at the Commission on Human Rights premises in Quezon City.

A third of the Pasig River has already been cleaned but more daunting tasks remain.

Manila is Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff country judging by the number of times you hear Concertos No. 1 and No 2 of said composers.

In the last masterclass of Romanian diva Nelly Miricioiu, one soprano brought the house down with a tough aria from Donizetti’s Linda di Chamonix.

Some of the designs aren’t just fit for everyone--ironically for those who are in danger of being left out during a disaster.

Music and history had an edifying moment Friday night in Iloilo City when the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Arturo Molina performed at the historic Molo Church constructed in 1831.

Simbulan, who would have turned 60 on Aug. 19, made it her mission to “help produce good journalists, journalists who can be better than me.”

After jumping above regional trends with the highest rate of new HIV infections in Asia Pacific due partly to complacency, the Philippine government has buckled down to address the problem among the most vulnerable populations.

Ask average Filipinos what the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is, and most would give answers that vary from vague to downright wrong.

At first glance, the name of this trio sounds something straight out of the Mafia. But Trio da Capo is a musical phrase, too. The name has instant recall.

The Philippines has a wealth of beautiful stories and wonderful imagery that children can appreciate. On this anthropologist-poet Padmapani L. Perez and literary scholar Sacha Garah are agreed. The two spoke at the recent Philippine Board on Books for Young People’s second book summit at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium, University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City.

The barely three-year old Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra (MSJO) under the baton of Jeffrey Solares won second place in the string orchestra category of the 11th Summa Cum Laude International Youth Festival in Vienna.

Prof. Jose Valdez has taught and lectured on the rudiments of classical guitar for 45 years, he has enriched guitar studies by introducing subjects such as “Applied Music with an 8 Level Course,” “Progressive Studies in Philippine Guitar Music,” “The Art of Transcribing and Arranging for the Guitar” and “Guitar History and Literature,” among others.

In eight oil on shaped canvas paintings (two of them diptychs), painter Tin F. Garcia expresses “the surreal and illogical goings-on in this country and everywhere else in the world.” She uses Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland books as her metaphor for they “resonate even more deeply, with even more creative people.”

Cecile Licad’s latest recording -- Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2 Music of the Night American Nocturnes (DACOCD 784-783) – is now out and headed for critical acceptance even as an American CD blogger going by the name Fully Half-Baked (FHB) virtually labelled it as a landmark recording.