Press Release - Villar awards winners in the 16th Las Pinas Parol Festival senate.gov.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from senate.gov.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Senator Cynthia A. Villar, former Department of Public Works (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar and Deputy Speaker Camille Vilar on Friday, Dec. 17 awarded the winners of the 16th Las Piñas City annual parol-making competition as part of their commitment to support its lantern industry which made the city
Senator Cynthia Villar, Former DPWH Sec.Mark Villar and Deputy Speaker Camille Vilar, yesterday awarded the winners of Las Piñas City annual parol-making competition, now on its 16th year, as part of their commitment to support its lantern industry which made the city’s Metro Manila’s parol-making capital. Despite the challenges brought by the coronavirus…
International Bamboo Organ Festival goes online from March 5 to 7
Mar 2, 2021 5:33 PM PHT
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This is a press release from the Bamboo Organ Foundation Inc.
Since the restoration of the Bamboo Organ in 1975, we have been celebrating the gift this instrument has been to Las Piñas, giving an identity to the city and to the country, protecting our national organ patrimony which is unique in Asia.
The present situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic did not change our conviction to continue this annual event although held on another platform maximizing the use of technology and the ingenuity of social media.
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The event is scheduled from March 5 to 7 at 8 p.m. and the program will be available on https://www.facebook.com/ibof46online so that people from around the world can watch regardless of their time zones.
Through the camera, there will be a unique view on the keyboard of the Bamboo Organ to be played by Armando Salarza, an international concert organist and has been the titular organist of the Bamboo Organ for 28 years.
Salarza, currently the artistic director of the International Bamboo Organ Festival, will also introduce the pipe organ of the San Scholastica College of Music and the organ at the San Ezekiel Moreno Oratory.