Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses, gold medalist in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition, has died in Basel, Switzerland on August 3, 2024. He was 66. He was receiving palliative care since the…
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A YOUNG MAN’S JOURNEY TO LOWER DEPTHS
How low can an innocent young man go as he confronts his dark destiny? Sheron Dayoc’s film, The Gospel of the Beast which opened the 20th edition of Cinemalaya at…
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NONOY FROILAN FOR NATIONAL ARTIST FOR DANCE
In the past, Nonoy Froilan was Siegfred in Swan Lake, Albrecht in Giselle, the voyager in Norman Walker’s Season of Flight. He has danced with the revered prima ballerinas of…
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DIAZ-ABAYA’S ‘JOSE RIZAL’ AT THE MET AUG. 7
One of the exciting highlights of Cinemalaya 2024 is the screening of the remastered version of the 1998 landmark film Jose Rizal by National Artist for Film Marilou Diaz-Abaya. The…
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LAURICE GUILLEN DELIVERS WELL-NUANCED ACTING IN ‘MORO’
Award-winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza has a continuing fascination with Muslim country in the South. His latest, Moro, is showing on Netflix July 19 and it has colorful echoes of his…
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FILIPINO-FINNISH CONDUCTOR IS NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR OF HONG KONG PHILHARMONIC
The music news of the week is that Filipino-Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski is the 9th and the youngest music director designate of the Hong Kong Philharmonic (HK Phil). “I am…
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MSJO INVADES EUROPE ANEW
Filipino musicians are making news in Europe in July! The Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra (MSJO) under Jeffrey Solares is headed for Budapest (June 30), Salzburg (July 2) and Prague (July…
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FILIPINO FILM WINS BIG IN NAGOYA FILM FEST
Vloggers or bloggers, famous or infamous, are the new celebrities of the country’s media landscape. They make news, sometimes they concoct news, just to be talked about. Many have no…
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JUNE BRIDES AND OTHER WEDDING TALES
“O month when they who love must love and wed.” –Helen Hunt Jackson What’s with the month of June that people wanted to get married at this time of…
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THE VISUAL ARTS JOURNEY OF ALMA ANG
Island painter Alma Ang from Virac, Catanduanes is in two art exhibits in Metro Manila. The first is the Bikol Expression exhibit at SM Megamall Art Center called Sarong Dekada…