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Master class with Maestra Nelly

Mar 16, 2015 10:18 PM

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE historic First Intensive Vocal Workshop of soprano Nelly Miricioiu ran for three days (March 9-11), seven hours long each day, with brief lunch and coffee breaks in between, at the Ayala Museum. It has more than prepared the 14 participants for international opera stages. It has also strengthened […]

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MSO to reprise 1945 concert amid war ruins

Mar 12, 2015 4:14 PM

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA Archive photos courtesy of the MANILA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The musicians who heeded the call of conductor Herbert Zipper to join the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s first concert after the Liberation of Manila in 1945 came from different parts of the country that had seen four years of hell. Some […]

Battle of Manila, Manila Symphony Orchestra

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The Lantern festival crowd: showcase of Taiwanese’s admirable discipline

Mar 12, 2015 8:35 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN the 20 to 30 minutes that I was in the midst of the teeming crowd in Wuri Railway Station in Taichung, Taiwan last Saturday, I gained insights about the Taiwanese and in way, in their relations with mainland China, more than what I have learned in my readings in the […]

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China’s latest expansion to deny PH access to Ayungin shoal

Mar 11, 2015 8:29 PM

By TESSA JAMANDRE CHINA has created new artificial islets in two more reefs in the disputed South China Sea, which the Philippine military fears is meant to choke off its access to Ayungin shoal, where a crumbling Philippine Navy ship is beached. In an interview, former Air Force officer Rep. Francisco Acedillo, now partylist representative […]

Ashley Acedillo, Mishief Reef, South China Sea

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PWD rights in post-2015 UN agenda backed

Mar 11, 2015 9:35 AM

THE National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) says it fully supports the international call to firmly include the human rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the post-2015 development agenda. This comes after a team of United Nations (UN) experts last month appealed to UN negotiators and member states to ensure that no one […]

Disability, MDGs, PWDs

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Nelly Miricioiu astounds Manila with her glorious singing

Mar 10, 2015 9:27 PM

By JOSEPH CORTES Photos by KIKO CABUENA and ANNA LEAH SARABIA Experienced concertgoers have observed that the acoustics of Meralco Theater is not favorable for concerts of classical music. It has something to do with the way the theater was designed. Rather than the box-shape you would find in most theaters, such as the […]

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LA-bound ‘special’ Olympians seek help for airfares

Mar 06, 2015 5:13 PM

By JAKE SORIANO THEY make the country proud but pay a high price, literally. The 36 athletes from the Philippines who will compete at the Special Olympics in July will each have to fork around $1,500 (P66,000) for a round trip ticket to Los Angeles. “We need help,” said Special Olympics Philippines Executive Director Kaye […]

Disability, PWDs, Special Olympics

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‘When I’m onstage, I belong to you’ – Nelly Miricioiu

Mar 04, 2015 6:50 AM

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA SOPRANO Nelly Miricioiu, whose roots are in Romania, has been called many things, including “a traitor to her country” when she defected to Western Europe. She experienced being snubbed and ignored by her countrymen despite the accolades heaped on her when she conquered Covent Garden in the United […]

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Story of Marcos-era mosquito press relevant as ever

Mar 03, 2015 11:13 PM

By JAKE SORIANO “THE past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote the great William Faulkner, a Nobel laureate for literature. The past is clearly never dead in the new documentary Portraits of Mosquito Press by JL Burgos about the assault on press freedom and human rights during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos, […]

Jose Burgos, Mosquito Press, We Forum

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Learning about Down Syndrome from Celina

Feb 27, 2015 6:00 AM

Text and photos by OFELIA EMPIAN LA TRINIDAD, Benguet—She whirls around the room with her apron on. She wipes the table clean,then stacks the yellow plastic plates, and forks and spoons in the basket. Her teacher beams and praises her student: “Very good!” Celina Sakiwat smiles, sits and waits for her sister to fetch her […]

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