VERA Files
Time to pucker up! For mouth-watering snacks, Filipinos bite into green mango slices with fermented shrimp paste, nibble on fresh kamias, tambis, or pineapple slices with salt, squeeze slices of calamansi on noodles, or dip fried spring rolls or chicharon into coconut vinegar spiked with bird’s eye chilies.
Music sources noted the first performance of Handel’s Messiah took place on April 13, 1742 in Dublin’s newest concert hall at the time. How come it is still the most performed choral masterpiece during Christmas time all over the world until 2022?
The 2022 Quezon City International Film Festival opened Thursday night (Nov. 17) with a timely social satire and with a Filipino actor as the celebrated protagonist.
For one who has sacrificed most of her life to music, Lourdes de Leon Gregorio, the country’s pioneering harp player and once stellar accompanying artist on the piano, is getting an overdue gratitude concert, “Hommages,” on Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. at Manila Pianos, fourth floor of Ronac Lifestyle Center, Paseo de Magallanes, Makati City.
Everardo Nery Napay was born on February 24, 1924.
I met him in Bicol in 1974 and watched his Bicol zarzuela, Burac Sa Jardin Ning Pagkamoot (Flower in the Garden of Love) on the same year.
The now seasonally rapacious COVID-19 has served as an unlikely creative inspiration for painter Popo San Pascual in his latest exhibition “Popo: Contagious Series” at Gallery Ninety in Baguio City.
Argentinian piano icon Martha Argerich connects very well with Filipino musicians.
Every May, the town of Oton, Iloilo celebrates its Katagman Festival where high school students are dressed in colorful costumes, with their eyes and noses covered with gold-colored paper.
Is the country better off singing together than participating in national elections?
The cast of Turandot which opens December 9-11 is a gathering of opera luminaries from all over the world.