Marco Polo Plaza's Champagne Series proudly presents Music Without Borders featuring world-renowned concert pianists Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz, Maestro Chi-Ying Hung and tenor Dr. Ying-Kwan Hong. A fusion of Oriental classics and European melodies will fill the entire Grand Ballroom for  a splendid night of music across borders.

 

This event is for the benefit of the Arts Council of Cebu Foundation, Inc.

Ticket sold at =P= 500.

For ticket reservations, contact: Marco Polo Plaza at 253-1111 loc. 8245 or Arts Council of Cebu at 233-0452

"Glimpses of Old Cebu" is a 260-page coffee table book of nearly 600 of the best photographs, postcards, stereoviews and lantern glass slides of Cebu and its many towns taken between 1899 and 1940. These images form part of over a thousand images collected over the past 20 years by Lucy Urgello Miller, a Cebuana now based in California. 

But more than just a mere showcasing of rare, never-before-seen images of Cebu, the book also provides a treasure trove of information accompanying every picture. 

Lucy Miller mined every possible source of information such that the reader is able to locate every picture and understand its place in Cebu's history. She herself injects personal anecdotes that were told to her by her aunt, Milagros Espina Urgello, on some of the images shown in the pictures. 

The very rare photos of the war against the Americans, the first Cebu Carnival, the great typhoon of 1912, the sensational Fuente murders of 1915, the slaying of four American teachers in 1902---these are but just a few of the many significant moments in Cebu's history that are chronicled in this book. Cebu's progress as a town and then as a young city are chronicled in the book through pictures of streets, private and government edifices. These are complemented by pictures taken of different towns, their churches, prominent streets and public works infrastructure. 

All told, this book is a must not just for a lazy Sunday reading but also as an important source of colonial period information about Cebu, told through the colonial lens.  

Exhibition dates: April 30-May 14, 2010 at SM City Cebu Northwing.

Yaron Kohlberg, born in Jerusalem in 1983, is one of Israel's leading young pianists. He is the winner of prestigious international prizes and performs regularly in Israel and abroad to critical acclaim.

 

Kohlberg is winner of the second prize in the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition, where he performed in the final round with the Cleveland Orchestra. Kohlberg has also won first prizes in the Parnassos International Competition in Monterrey (Mexico) and the Shostakovich International Competition in Hanover, and was a top prizewinner in other international competitions such as Andorra, Tivoli (Copenhagen) and Grieg (Oslo). In Israel he won the first prizes in the Clairmont competition, the Young Artist competition and the piano competition of the Jerusalem Music Academy. He has received many additional awards, including the Colton Scholarship of Tel Aviv University and a citation as the outstanding participant at the Tel- Hai Masterclasses. From 1992 he has been a regular recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships (with distinction).

 

Bishara Haroni, born in Nazareth, studied the piano with Esther Balasha at the age of 12 in Haifa and continued his studies for eight years with Dr. Eitan Globerson in Jerusalem. He finished his studies at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover” in Germany with Professor Arie Vardi. He is currently taking private lessons with Maestro Daniel Barenboim. As a concerto soloist he enjoys associations with major orchestras in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Norway, Britain, Israel and the United states. And he recently performed as a soloist with the London Philharmonia under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel, and under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. Haroni was also invited in the coming season to play with Gianandrea Noseda and Maestro Riccardo Mutti.