Thursday, September 09, 2010
Arts & Culture
At the Nichols Concert Hall in ChicagoCHICAGO -- Kundiman is a traditional Philippine music genre that entirely centers on relationships and romance. Its melody is described as flowing and gentle. In the old days, it was sung to woo a lover, or ask someone in marriage. On Saturday, August 21, three classically-trained Philippine artists put kundiman to a new light, in a rousing performance at the Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston, north of Chicago. Juilliard-trained mezzo soprano Clarissa Ocampo ...
HISTORY is resplendent with great people and the tales of their greatness. To some, they have earned their place through self-aggrandizement, by treading a path that generally benefited their own deep-seated pleasures and agendas. To some, they found themselves as reluctant players, being throttled into the position not by their own volition, but through circumstance. And to a few, they have wilfully taken on their journey and burden, embracing the call for greatness not for the glorification of...
TITLE: History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos AUTHOR: Luis Francia PUBLISHER: Overlook Press 345 pages Nonfiction THERE are two things that are pretty evident about the contemporary study of Philippine history. One is that many Filipinos, in an age of high multinational capitalism and globalized economics, are not impressed by the argument that gaining an appreciation for their nation's history is closely tied to generating a sense of an autonomous self-identity and to compr...
MANILA -- In the shadows of an ancient cathedral in the Philippine capital, wilting horses attached to carriages shelter from the tropical sun as their drivers try to interest the few tourists milling around.Hawkers exhibit sombreros, fans and rosaries on the pavement nearby but few buyers are in sight -- a depressingly familiar scenario for Manila's historic tourist district centred on the colonial Spanish walled city of Intramuros. Tourists generally skip old Manila in their rush to Boracay an...
World War II photo exhibit Long Beach , Calif. -- "Ala-Ala: Remembrances", a WWII photo exhibit will be featured at the Long Beach Main Public Library and Information Center starting October 12, 2010. These were photos taken by the United States Army Signal Corps during the liberation of the Philippines circa 1944. A local artist, Fred Faith, found the photos among discarded items in the streets of Long Beach. The historical find was shared with Richard Madeira, chair of Long Beach-Sochi Sister ...
RESTON, Virginia -- As the showcase country, the Philippine American Foundation for Charities, Inc. in partnership with the Embassy of the Philippines, organized a Philippine Village, which presented the rich and diverse culture of the Philippines through cultural performances, food and trade vendors, interactive displays and indigenous games. The Filipino-American community from the Washington DC Metropolitan committed time and resources to present the best of the Philippines in the largest Asi...
Before the Tabon Man there was the Callao Man MANILA - Archaeologists have found a foot bone that could prove the Philippines was first settled by humans 67,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought, the National Museum said August 3. The bone, found in an extensive cave network, predates the 47,000-year-old Tabon Man that is previously known as the first human to have lived in the country, said Taj Vitales, a researcher with the museum's archaeology section. "This would ...
MANILA - A Filipino couple who pioneered in new teaching techniques for the poor and three Chinese environmental campaigners were among the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel prize. The mayor of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and a Bangladeshi advocate for the disabled were also honored August 2 by the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation, based here. Photographer Huo Daishan received the award for publicizing the massive pollution of the Huai Ri...
TITLE: Ilustrado AUTHOR: Miguel Syjuco PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 320 pages Novel DEDICATED to the memory of Philippine history, Miguel Syjuco's first novel, "Ilustrado," reconciles his literary imagination with historical actuality. The novel, marked by strategicallyplaced detours and digressions, appropriates more than a century of the history of the Philippines by waxing articulately about it in its text. "Ilustrado" furthermore, is equally absorbing for its humor and for its ...
HAREL Gietheim, cellist, has played western classical works of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart, among others. However, on Saturday August 14, 2010, with pianist Kanako Nishikawa, they will take a detour by premiering the musical arrangements of the Philippine classical genre known as a kundiman by young American composer Brian John. Gietheim plays an exquisite interpretation of "Pakiusap" (A Plea), an aria favored by Philippine opera singers, composed by Francisco Santiago. Kanako Nishikawa has bee...
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