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Nicanor Abelardo - his music and his life

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  NASAAN KA IROG (Nicanor Abelardo) | Kung Hindi Man Facebook Mastodon Pinterest Share Nicanor Santa Ana Abelardo was born on the 7th of February, 1893 in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan. He was a composer, pianist and teacher. He was the eldest of eight children born to Valentin Abelardo, a photographer, and Placida Santa Ana, a church singer. His father taught him solfeggio and bandurria when he was five. At six, he could already play the William Tell Overture on the guitar. He composed and dedicated a waltz, "Ang Unang Buko" (First Bud) to his grandmother, at age eight. In 1902, his uncle, Juan Abelardo, a painter, brought him to Manila where he studied in several primary schools. While working for his uncle, he learned to play the piano, and later studied voice under the Italian maestro Enrico Capozzi who refused to be paid for teaching such a talented boy.1 Upon the recommendation of composer, Francisco Buencamino, he was hired to play at saloons and cabarets at age 13. At...

NASAAN KA IROG (Nicanor Abelardo) | Kung Hindi Man

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JAMES LAST Notturno di Chopin ( Lecce)

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Per rendere ancora più bella una città basterebbe liberare i monumenti dalle auto, dai cassonetti dei rifiuti e dalla segnaletica... e soprattutto evitare di buttare a terra quello che ci pare.

Pinoys listen to music 126 minutes a day, longest globally

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  Paul Icamina - The Philippine Star   The time spent by Filipinos listening to music, at an average of 126 minutes or a little over two hours a day, is the longest in the world. Iqbal Nuwir Anwar via Canva Paul Icamina  - The Philippine Star  January 30, 2025 | 12:02am MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos not only spend the most time on the internet and on social media, they listen to music the longest anywhere on the planet. The time spent by Filipinos listening to music, at an average of 126 minutes or a little over two hours a day, is the longest in the world, according to a study conducted by the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). “Music is more than a means of entertainment – it is the people’s way to communicate feelings, resonate their stories and build on their emotions,” says Dr. Maria Alexandra Chua, a professor at the University of Sto. Tomas Conservatory of Music who leads NRCP’s Musika Pilipinas project. And yet, as important as music is in...

Joseph Joachim Romanze in C

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Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 -- August 15, 1907) (pronounced YO-a-chim) was a violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time. Joseph Joachim was born to Julius and Fanny Joachim, who were Hungarian Jews, as the seventh of eight children. Joachim was born in Kittsee (KopÄ any / Köpcsény), near Bratislava and Eisenstadt, in today's Burgenland area of Austria. At the time, Kittsee was part of the Esterhazy holdings in Hungary, and for this reason Joachim is often considered to be Hungarian. Joseph Joachim's birth house in Kittsee. In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanislaus Serwaczynski, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. (Serwaczynski later moved to Lublin, Poland, where he taught Wieniawski). In 1839, Joachim continued his studies in Vienna (briefly with Miska Hauser and Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.; finally â€" and most significantly â€" with Joseph Böhm). He was ta...

COURTESY CALL

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  COURTESY CALL LOOK: Actresses Janella Salvador, RK Bagatsing, and the production team paid a courtesy call to Mayor Michelle Nakpil Rabat at Mati City Hall today, January 27, 2025. Learned that their team is now in Mati City for the filming of the upcoming movie which is one of the official entries of the 2025 Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival. According to Mayor Rabat the film will be of great help to promote tourism in their city. #ShowbizNews #RKBagatsing #JanellaSalvador #MatiCity #DavaoUpdates City of Mati LGU    ·  See original    ·  Rate this translation All reactions: 448 Dodi R. Juliano and 447 others

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

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  Did you know that Berlioz composed his Symphonie Fantastique in just two months? In 1827, the young composer goes to the theater in Paris for a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Irish actress Harriet Smithson, performing the role of the tormented Ophelia, entrances him and inspires him to incredible artistic heights, leading him to compose Symphonie fantastique. They did get married eventually in 1833! Watch Leonard Bernstein lead the Orchestre National de France in an exciting interpretation of Berlioz’s unforgettable work, filmed in 1976 at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs Élysées. https://bit.ly/42hKNR J