By PABLO A. TARIMAN BLUES and country music in Tupelo, Mississippi took a backseat Saturday night last week when world-acclaimed Filipino pianist Cecile Licad performed for the first time with the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra under Steven Byess as soloist in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major and Totentanz: Paraphrase on Dies Irae
By PABLO A. TARIMAN FILIPINO pianist Cecile Licad continued her phenomenal mastery of the Chopin and Liszt repertoire with yet another electrifying recital at the Calderwood Hall of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston last Sunday afternoon. American music critic David Patterson of the Boston Musical Intelligencer wrote that the pianist’s arresting velocity
BY PABLO A. TARIMAN
CECILE Licad, the Philippines’s most celebrated pianist, is again circling the USA commuting between Liszt and Chopin in a series of recitals and orchestral engagements that had critics swooning. once again.
By PABLO A. TARIMAN THE sad news in the music world is that pianist Van Cliburn-- the first American pianist to win the First Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 -- was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer.
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
THE brief transcendent experience of witnessing "The Dying Swan," featuring ballerina Lisa Macuja, cellist Wilfredo Pasamba, especially flown in for this number, and pianist Cecile Licad--all three marking a historic first in the Philippines with live music played to this dance interpretation of Saint-Saens piece from Le Carnaval des Animaux--nearly redeemed Saturday's traffic nightmare.
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
WHEN Cecile Licad blows into town for concert engagements, it is not egoism on her part when she asks for a piano that will enable her to give her best on concert night.
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA
IT may come as a surprise to some that seasoned pianist Cecile Licad, ballerina Lisa Macuja and singer Lea Salonga, who continue to light up stages here and abroad, confess to pre-concert jitters.
PRIZEWINNING German cellist Alban Gerhardt has chosen to team up with celebrated Filipino pianist Cecile Licad in his latest CD "Casals Encores" under Hyperion label set to be launched in June.
CELEBRATED Filipino pianist Cecile Licad makes history in Russian soil when she becomes the first Filipino soloist to perform with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra on April 15 at the highly revered Tchaikovsky Hall at Triumfalnay Square in Moscow.
COMPETITION prizewinners are again in the news in Manila’s music scene as Russian pianist Sofia Gulyak debuts in Manila Oct. 14 at the Philamlife Theater.
