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                    [Title] => Michael W. Smith: Out of his comfort zone
                    [Summary] => 

“Sometimes you’ve just got to shake things up,” Michael W. Smith says with a smile.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1243183 [AuthorName] => Danee Samonte [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20151116/Michael-W-Smith.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1505379 [Title] => An early Christmas worship with Don Moen [Summary] =>

I, too, am among those who often wonder why we Filipinos need to get into the Christmas festivities so early in September.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-29 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20150930/Don-Moen-2.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1382040 [Title] => The healing music of Don Moen [Summary] =>

I like the way a newspaper write-up referred to Don Moen as the Barry Manilow of Christian music.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20141020/Don-Moen.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 668514 [Title] => A magnificent Requiem / Violinist Donnie remembered [Summary] =>

Weeks in advance, the CCP had already reserved tickets for me for Verdi’s monumental masterpiece Requiem, one of the greatest works in choral literature.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 535585 [Title] => 'Of Angus Beef & Anus Beep' [Summary] =>

Last Dec. 16 at five in the morning, I had and heard my very first Misa de Gallo or Misa de Aguinaldo or Simbang Gabi as an adult at the Christ the King Parish in GreenMeadows, Quezon City. True.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134743 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1399221 [AuthorName] => Joey de Leon [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 71434 [Title] => Chant music for paradise [Summary] =>

How’s this for technological progress? A religious group uploaded its performance video into YouTube and got a recording deal. You might say that something like that happens all the time. Journey’s Arnel Pineda was discovered via YouTube. But this one is a different case because the group is the Cistercian Monks of the Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz.

[DatePublished] => 2008-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322259 [Title] => Focus on RP composers / Homage to Mozart / Galvan on new IC site [Summary] => Dynamic Maestro Oscar C. Yatco recently conducted the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of Philippine works at the CCP main theater, thus affording the audience the chance to listen to their own composers. The pieces, varying in local color and ethnicity, interspersed with shouts, with percussions predominating, were R. [DatePublished] => 2006-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 243234 [Title] => Kayumanggi [Summary] => The songs in the concert titled Kayumanggi were mostly religious in nature, yet they were not anything like Bach Cantata, Handel’s Hallelujah, a Palestrina Mass, Mozart’s or Verdi’s Requiem. The structure’s, modes, methods, systems or means were often a complete departure from what had been handed down to us by the West through the Spaniards (informally) and by the Germans represented by Sr. Baptista Battig who introduced formal Western music education in the Philippines in 1908.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135822 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 176795 [Title] => Memorial concert: A candle kept vigil [Summary] => Between the American and Philippine flags on the CCP stage, a lighted giant candle kept vigil over the "victims and heroes" of September 11. Other sights heightened the drama of the occasion, bringing to mind the tragedy that shook the world: video clips and printed programs showing chaos and destruction, and pictures of those who perished and those who died while desperately trying to save them.
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But beyond the visual impression, there was, more importantly, the aural: the singing at the CCP Theater by the 39-member San Miguel Master Chorale of 11 sopranos, 10 altos, 9 tenors and 9 basses – the male and female voices striking a sensitive balance, each individual voice strikingly honed and disciplined.
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