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NEW symphonic works by young composers will be
performed by the Metro Manila Community Orchestra (MMCO) under the
baton of Josefino Chino Toledo in Music Underkonstruction: Hearing
the Future Symphonic on July 15, 8 p.m. at the Cultural Center of
the Philippines (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater).
The program will highlight new
compositions inspired by the poetry of National Artists for
Literature Francisco Arcellana, Rio Almario and Jose Garcia Villa.
Guest artists include violinist Coke Bolipata, pianist Luci Magalit,
and the AUIT Chamber Vocal Ensemble. The concert is presented in
cooperation with the Institute for Orchestral Development in the
Philippines, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Miriam
College and Metrobank Foundation.
Created in 2005, Music
Underkonstruction aims to bridge the gap of a declining list of
Filipino classical composers and encourage young talented composers
to pursue a serious career in classical composition. It gives the
composers an opportunity to have their works tested by having the
MMCO perform their pieces, and at the same time performed before a
discriminating audience in a concert hall. Further, it was created
in an effort to encourage fresh and innovative but idiomatic
approaches to solo instrument and orchestral writing, without
prejudice to any musical styles, expressions and persuasions.
Founded in 2000 by the Institute
for Orchestral Development of the Philippines, the MMCOhas performed
in concert halls, malls, schools, universities, churches, town
plazas, and in the halls of corporate institutions. It is a group
composed of students and professionals who are in the academe, in
business, in the military and in government. Under the disciplined
sensitivity of Josefino Chino Toledo, the MMCO works on a vast
orchestral repertoire ranging from classical symphonies, popular
classics, to emerging Filipino music.
Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM)
awardee and International Award for the Arts recipient Josefino
Chino Toledo is a recognized figure in Asian contemporary art music
scene. Currently a professor of music composition and theory at the
University of the Philippines, College of Music; he is the founding
music director of the MMCO, University of the Philippines Festival
Orchestra, Crosswave Symphony Orchestra Project and the chamber
vocal ensemble AUIT; former music director of Manila Symphony
Orchestra and Peace Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines; and
guest conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in its
concerts and other orchestral activities. He is noted for premiering
works of Filipino composers as well as other Asian composers.
The program includes “Diary of
a Synaesthete” (2006) by Nilo Alcala II, “The Dream Catcher”
(2008) by Kim Nimrod Cruz, “Le Genou et l’epaule des tissées étoiles”
(2008) by Feliz Anne Macahis, “Ekontra: Kongruo: Iunctum (2007) by
Josefino Chino Toledo, “I touch her, yes” (poem by National
Artist Francisco Arellano), by Erwin Fajardo, “Pangungulila”
(poem by Rio Almario) by Juro Kim Feliz, and “I can no more hear
love’s voice” (poem by Jose Garcia Villa) by Kabaitan Bautista.
The concert is part of the
festival of new works involving the spoken word, theater, film,
visual arts, dance and music entitled “Brave New Works” which
runs from June 10 to August 16, in celebration of CCP’s 40th
Anniversary.
Tickets are P100. For
inquiries, call the CCP Box Office at 832-3704 and the CCP
Performing Arts Department at 832-1125 loc. 1604-1605.
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