“Action is the antidote to despair.”
- Joan Baez (1941- …)

The following is Koro Ilustrado’s rendition of Pasko Na Sinta Ko being one of the two audition pieces for the MBC National Choral Competition held earlier today at the Star Theater, Star City.
Soloist: Arvin Veria
Arrangement: Anna Abeleda-Piquero (also our conductor)
Thank you to Anna and Jong! Our gratitude also goes to Darwin and Orly for providing the percussion for our second piece, African Noel.
Shameless plug: Watch our first major concert Koro, Klasik, Krismas! on December 2, 2009 at the PhilAm Life Auditorium, Un Avenue, Manila.

Amazon links: Glee, For Your Entertainment, Smoke & Mirrors, Graffiti

I had the privilege to watch Libera’s Manila concert last night (Oct. 25) at the PICC and it was a great experience for me as a fan even when others slept and kept on making “unnecessary noise” during the most part of the concert. The Libera boys’ voices are ‘celestial’: as Amb. De Ocampo said in his opening remarks, their sound is almost like the angels’.
Below is a clip of their encore song “Bayan Ko“, a Filipino patriotic kundiman, recorded by one of our companions uploaded “officially” in YouTube so that everyone could watch and listen to this ecstatic performance. The arrangement is good and the style of Libera made the song even more hair-raising.

So this is where Koro Ilustrado (which I am a member of) sang its first (anticipated) Sunday Mass last Saturday, October 24. Sing with us on October 31 at 6 pm and at 4:30 pm for the rest of November and onwards.
Santuario De San Antonio
Forbes Park, Makati City
It’s great to be back singing again at mass.
OT PLUG: Please watch Koro Ilustrado’s first major concert on December 2, 2009 at the PhilAm Life Auditorium, UN Avenue, Manila; tickets at P300.


What’s in your iPod? I don’t know how iTunes v. 9.0.1(9) got to organize my music Library but I just love the Genius mixes. Genius indeed! Here’s mine:
And I already updated my iPod touch’s software to 3.1.2.