Another big casualty of Typhoon Rolly is the ancestral house of distinguished poet Angela Manalang Gloria in Tabaco City. The entire second floor of the house lay exposed after the…
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𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘰 𝘈. 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘯 I agree. The brutal hallmark of the pandemic is the way it isolates victims in their final moments. For close to eight months, all that…
A LIFETIME OF ARTS REPORTING
Excerpts from remarks delivered by the columnist Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, Carlos P. Romulo Hall in Makati City when he received the Golden Leaf Award for Excellence in the field of Art Advocacy in Media. LEAF stands for Live Entertainment, Arts & Festivals.
REFLECTIONS ON KOBE BRYANT PLAYING THE MOONLIGHT SONATA
As I listened to Kobe’s shortened version of Moonlight Sonata with the Luring Quartet, I also remembered the night Licad played the same movement in full in an intimate private gathering.
NEW LICAD CD WITH DENMARK PHILHARMONIC OUT SOON
“This is such memorable experience for me working with fantastic Filipino conductor and great musicians from Denmark,” the pianist said. “It has been real pleasure to have worked Judy Sherman who is an old friend and a 10-time Grammy award-winning producer.”
MAD SCENES IN LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR AND BEYOND
But preparing for her role which requires an equal dose of good acting and spectacular singing, the soprano said she has a good idea how to approach her Mad Scene in the opera. “This mad moment is not something that dropped from above. It is the result of emotional trauma. I’d like to build that mad moment and make it look real and not contrived. I take time building the scene and not just by looking insane but by projecting something inside me. In opera, even Lucia’s kind of madness should make sense.”
Music-making around volcano country
I’ve always been fascinated by Taal Volcano which I could see every time I visit what then was known as the Taal Vista Lodge. In 1995, I brought Licad and cellist-husband Antonio Meneses to perform in one of the functions rooms. It has a view of Taal Volcano seen from the glass partition. I actually imagined a volcano acting up when they played the Shostakovich sonata.
This opera singer is also into jazz
Described by Opera Magazine as a singer who “enchants with her fresh and luminous tone,” Louledjian added Lucia was a dream role and she studied it early for her own enjoyment and added singing it in Manila was totally unexpected. “When I was offered to do it in Manila, I was actually prepared. I dreamt of singing it early in my singing life but had no idea when the dream would come true.”