Great music treats in May
The first week of the humid and infernal month of May yielded outstanding performances and great soloists involving two orchestral ensembles and an all-Bach cello recital.
Tag Archives: Manila Symphony Orchestra
Violin prodigy is Juilliard bound
What do Filipino violin prodigy Jeanne Marquez have in common with piano superstar Yuja Wang and Tchaikovsky competition gold medalist Viktoria Mullova?
It takes a village to support an orchestra
A ticket to a typical concert of the 92-year old Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) would cost an exorbitant P5,000 if there were no corporate or individual sponsors, patrons and donors or season subscribers.
Two generations of Ilonggos cheer MSO
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.
Alexandru Tomescu electrifies anew with MPO
It was raining cheers and ecstatic applause at the Cultural Center of the Philippine main theater Saturday night with the return engagement of Romanian violin superstar Alexandru Tomescu who was soloist of the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) in the highly challenging Paganini Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor.
Rachmaninoff symphony sizzles in MSO season opening concert
The main highlight of the opening season concert of the Manila Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Molina Saturday night is the monumental Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 mounted at The Circuit in Makati.
MSO to reprise 1945 concert amid war ruins
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
The joy of music, the horrors of war
BY PABLO A. TARIMAN THE members of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) were preparing for their next season concert on September 14 at the BDO Francisco Santiago Hall when they received a pleasant surprise: an American clarinet player who played in the historic 1945 concert of the orchestra in the ruins of Sta. Cruz
MSO shines anew in Schubert’s ‘Great Symphony’
By PABLO A. TARIMAN ONLY one orchestra in the country can claim to have a historic past and that is the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) founded in 1926 by Dr. Alexander Lippay and Dr. Herbert Zipper. Thus, there is always something sentimental in MSO concerts. MSO was temporarily disabled in the late 80s with the
Why Manila hardly ever hears a Wagnerian soprano
By PABLO A. TARIMAN WHEN sensational Australian soprano Claire Primrose debuts in Manila on November 10 with the Manila Symphony Orchestra at the Philamlife Theater, she will have ended an 18-year drought of Wagnerian sopranos in Manila.