Teresa - I was wondering about your alma mater in the Philipines. Thanks for the info. The very few Filipinos/(Filipina??) that I have had the pleasure of meeting in real life and on forums have proved to be so impressively educated, multi-lingual, well-mannered but also passionate that I would love to one day visit the Philipines. I have told you before about the high regard we in SA have for the Philipine Madrigal Singers; and from the moment I have heard and SEEN them (beautiful!) in 1989 I have been intrigued by your country.
Hi Mags! - I would love to have you visit the Philippines, and as my guest! I've done the Manila-Kuala Lumpur-Cape Town-Buenos Aires round trip before (one of the best long airline routes today), and maybe the next time I go to Buenos Aires from New York (a possibility around Christmas time this year), I could 'pick you up', sort of, in Cape Town, and we could fly to Manila together! (My Buenos Aires connection is another story altogether)...
Anyway, the Madrigal Singers - who are still officially the UP Madrigal Singers, as they originated in the UP College of Music in 1963, though they perform abroad as the Philippine Mdrigal Singers - are still doing very well and keeping madrigal singing vibrantly alive and adapted to many kinds of music! Andy Veneracion, the lady choirmaster at the time you first saw them, retired in 2001 - two years eerlier, she was named National Artist for Music (the first one for acheivement in choral music). The 'MADZ' as they are known semi-officially, won the European Grand Prize for Choral Singing twice (1997 in Tours, and 2007 in Arezzo. the only group so far to have won twice) and in 2008, they were named UNESCO Artists for Peace.
TERESA
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