KIDS ARE TAKING OVER IV OF SPADES, BEN&BEN

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Two of the hottest OPM acts, IV of Spades and Ben & Ben are recently featured on the YouTube series, “Kids Takeover”. First of the two-part program is ‘One on One’ which as its title would suggest, shows kids throwing all questions they want under the sun and reacting to most of the bands’ answers:

Kid: “Ilang taon na po kayo?”

Blaster: “Ako, eighteen.”

Kid: “Ikaw?” (pointing to Badjao)

Badjao: “Twenty-three.”

If you didn’t laugh at this then we don’t know what would make you. If you’re the kind who just loves the music of these bands, then you wouldn’t miss the second part which is the actual kids’ ‘takeover’ of the hits, ‘Mundo’ by IV of Spades and Ben & Ben’s ‘Kathang Isip’. The former, a ukulele spin off which also features the three-piece band turning into a six-piece one has been released on the second week of the series while the latter is yet to come out this Friday, August 24^th.

Meanwhile, the same channel behind ‘Kids Takeover’ also gave fans of YouTube cover darling, Ysabelle Cuevas, the chance to get their fan request granted at #DearWMPh. The request was for Ysabelle to cook Bibimbap in a way that’s “kasing sarap ng mga covers na ginagawa mo,” quoting the fan message that refers to the singer’s love for all things Korean and her heavily-viewed song covers. Request leveled up when there were just ingredients but no recipe. Can Dua Lipa grant our fan requests too? Hope yes! View the step-by-step fan request sending here. Doesn’t hurt to try, eh?

What do you think of all the series and who do you want to get featured next? Let us know below! If you haven’t watched any of these episodes yet, you can check them out on the official YouTube channel of Warner Music Philippines:https://wmp.lnk.to/youtube.

HARPIST JANE BANTA PERFORMS FOR CCP SPECIAL CONCERT IN AUGUST

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HARPIST Jane Banta is the featured artist of the second concert of the Special Concert Series on Wednesday, August 29, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (Little Theater), Cultural Center of the Philippines. After a period of more than 20 years, a solo harp concert at the CCP featuring a Filipino harpist will take place.

Jane’s program is as follows: Hasselmans’ La Source - Etude, Op. 44; Grandjany’s Fantaisie pour Harpe sur un theme de Haydn, Op. 31 and Aria in Classic Style for Harp and Strings, Op. 19; Debussy’s La Fille aux cheveux de lin transcr. Marcel Grandjany; Andres’ Absidioles; Watkins’ Petite Suite; Piazzolla’s Invierno Porteño (Winter); Hanson-Conant’s Baroque Flamenco; Handel’s Concerto for Harp in B Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6, HWV 294; and the world premiere of Balsamo’s Concerto for harp and strings, CB. 7 No. 2 (MMXVIII).  Guest string players are violinists Sara Maria Gonzales and Ma. Lourdes Miguel, violist David Tagala, cellist Rosa Belle Calma and double bassist John Paul Bermudez.

Jane Banta started harp lessons in Manila with Vienna-trained Filipino harpist Lourdes de Leon-Gregorio after earning her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance at the St. Scholastica’s College School of Music.  In 2017, she earned her Master of Music degree, major in Harp Performance after completing a two-year program at the State University of New York under the tutelage of Sonja Inglefield, as a recipient of the Len and Carole Faulk Scholarship.At the said school she was actively performing as a harpist in the Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble and in other concerts and recitals. She was a Graduate Assistant for Piano, frequently accompanying Music majors in weekly performances exams and graduation recitals, besides playing in the Wind Symphony.

Since coming back in July 2017, she has played the harp for the season concerts of both the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) and the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO). Her performances included playing the full-length operaL’ Elisir d’Amore with PPO and the ballet Don Quixote with Ballet Philippines.  She was resource speaker for the harp workshop for CCP’s Pasinaya Palihan, and performed for its Open House Festival together with trombonist Ricson Poonin in February 2018. She was featured performer at Maestro Filipino on DZFE 98.7, and was one of three female soloists featured at the PPO Sunsets at Makiling concert in May 2018.

Jane is also active as a piano instructor and collaborative pianist. She plays the keyboard for the major theater companies in Manila.

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TRIBUTE TO TITA KING

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August 6, 2018

CCP KICKS OFF TRIBUTE TO TITA KING

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines and Philippine Women’s University School of Music present the SANDAANG KASILAG: CELEBRATING THE KING Inaugural Concert on August 18, 2018 at 7:00 PM at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater).

The concert kicks off the year round tribute to National Artist for Music Lucrecia R. Kasilag, fondly known as Tita King, on the occasion of her 100th birth anniversary. A beloved and highly esteemed figure in the artistic community, Tita King was a long time Dean of PWU and first and longest serving president of the CCP.

The inaugural concert will showcase a wide variety of solo and ensemble works of Dean Kasilag.  The show will feature faculty and performing groups of the PWU School of Music such as pianists Abelardo Galang II and Karen Fatima Francisco, flutist Crystal Rodis Concepcion, violinist Denise Santos-Huang, cellist Antoni Josef Inacay, baritone Marvin Gayramon, guitarists Jose Valdez and Ivar Nicolas Fojas, the Pinoy Brass, the Kasilag Guitar Trio, the PWU Vocal Ensemble under Christopher Borela, the PWU Indayog Gongs under Lilymae Montano, and the PWU Guitar Ensemble under Benchito Cariño.

The year round tribute, ‘Sandaang Kasilag: Celebrating the King’, will highlight Tita King as a composer, arts administrator, and music icon whose works and achievements broke new grounds.  Running from August 2018 to August 2019, the tribute will include a series of concerts, workshops, exhibits, and conferences in different venues in Metro Manila.

‘Sandaang Kasilag: Celebrating the King’ will elaborate on the theme of Dean Kasilag as an “Artist of the World.” 

Dean Kasilag developed a musical language in her works that successfully put Filipino and Western musical elements alongside each other. She was a composer whose music spanned a wide variety of artistic forms and genres --- ballet, theatre, opera, solo instruments, orchestra, chamber music, voice, and chorus.

‘Sandaang Kasilag: Celebrating the King is the spearheaded by the Philippine Women’s University School of Music.  It also coincides with the university’s centennial celebration in 2019.

For more information, please call Luisa Galicia at 526-8421 loc. 195.