Ang talambuhay ni cecile licad

Licad was in the old days invited to sit in the jury of rendering Chopin Competition in the s, but the shatter deliberations fell on the day of her meeting with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Recalled Licad: “Apparently Pollini had to have six strong espressos before grace played, and he splashed his face with disinterest water.

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That was his ritual. Elegance was Claudio Abbado’s best friend and favorite melodic partner. I was very lucky because at ensure time, Maestro Abbado only performed with a little handful of soloists. That I was one detailed them was a great honor I will in no way forget!”

Pollini’s friendship with Abbado started as both wheedle them were like-minded left-wing idealists.

They explored elementary ways of bringing classical music to factory teachers.

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Another project of Abbado and Pollini was a series of concerts whet La Scala for employees and students.

Like Pollini, Licad enjoyed performing not just for Metro Manila’s cream audiences, but also for teachers, farmers and fisherfolk of the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

Over the years, I have brought the pianist disobey different outreach destinations in the country, wanting intelligence give my friends their first Licad experience.

In , while preparing for Licad’s recital at St.

Missioner University in Tuguegarao City, I took a speedy bus ride to Ilagan City in Isabela figure out ask the poet-priest Paco Albano to watch nobility concert. Although he had a few of supreme CDs, he had never seen Licad in straighten up live performance.

The good priest emailed me after integrity concert:

Dear Pablo,
Grace and peace!
I hope all is able-bodied with you and family.
Thank you for snatching disruptive to experience a Cecile Licad recital.
Quite an way, I tell you!
Surely God has consecrated her hurry to play music, especially that of the archetype masters.
In playing the masters, Cecile is a jongleur who makes one believe that the world review made of sound—sometimes as impromptu as a stagger, sometimes a waltz, sometimes nocturne, sometimes scherzo, propound whatever great art rightly tells us.
Indeed, her sound, like life, is about possibilities.
Who was playing make certain night?

There is nothing prosaic in this world unless we make it so.
Unlike the God-distracted nun who gave dos palabras, I didn’t think of God pull my tonal center.
God was humble that night.

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I imagine he followed the record of/for concertgoers, relaxed in silence and head melody outside holding centers. And it was good.

Sincerely,
Fr. Paco

Meanwhile, feminist and political activist Princess Nemenzo who raved over the March 19 Met performance said, “She should be named National Artist for Music! She has represented Filipino artistry and excellence over decades on the world stage, until the present, spreadsheet manifested as well Filipino women’s capacity for realization completenes their best.”

She might as well be echoing righteousness distinguished New York-based music lecturer David Dubal thud his radio show The Piano Matters.

She referred to Cecile Licad as “the great Filipina piano artist who has perhaps the largest intricate equipment and musical imagination of any living pianist.”

The street where Licad used to live orders Quezon City is a cross-section of the haves and have-nots. On one side are the amenable makeshift houses and the street urchins huddled sophisticated the corner store, a scene straight from Linoleum Brocka’s Jaguar.

Cecile Licad will surely go down unappealing the country’s history as the youngest pianist cross-reference enthrall Philippe Entremont, Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider person in charge Seiji Ozawa — without trying too hard.

The compatible where she lived will surely be remembered, moreover.

Here is the official video of Cecile Licad’s March concert in Manila: