Growing up in a house of music

By Rica Bolipata-Santos | April 27, 2008 - 12:00am

I am asked all the time: what is it like to come from your family? So here’s a real answer: Every weekend, either a Saturday or a Sunday, it doesn’t matter really, we all come together for a family...

Sunday Lifestyle

Quach, Coke: Awesome duo/Music Underkonstruction

By SUNDRY STROKES | February 27, 2008 - 12:00am

Opinion

The dominant strings/ Rudolf Golez concert

By SUNDRY STROKES | March 14, 2007 - 12:00am

Exemplifying the concert title "Virtuoso Strings," the strings predominated at the CCP main theater, the performances ranging from very good to excellent, to virtuosic.

Opinion

Cesare Syjuco startles / Pundaquit Fete winds up

By SUNDRY STROKES | May 20, 2006 - 12:00am

Cesare A.X. Syjuco will always remain an enigma to me. As a person, he is warm, engaging and, yes, charming but as a multi-faceted, multi-talented artist, he will always elude complete understanding or comprehension...

Opinion

This is how the Fishermen Sing

By Susan Isorena-Arcega | May 14, 2006 - 12:00am

Culture Is Not A Luxury: it is how we live. The arts, in turn, are for everybody, regardless of age, race, creed, or ability. Today, just as the call for globalization has brought about increased anxieties for the...

Starweek Magazine

Coke Bolipata the violin man

By Juaniyo Arcellana | March 26, 2006 - 12:00am

The violinist Alfonso "Coke" Bolipata has never finished watching the movie "The Red Violin," the story of varied twists and turns surrounding the instrument through the ages, including episodes...

Starweek Magazine

Coke: Wizard of the bow and 5 young composers / Ingrid, Quartet at Park

By SUNDRY STROKES | February 22, 2006 - 12:00am

It was an almost totally atonal program at the CCP main theater last week except for a brief legato in Bartok’s Concerto No. 2 rendered by violinist Alfonso "Coke" Bolipata, and the exquisitely lyrical...

Opinion

Have violin, will camp

By Paolo F. Belmonte | June 11, 2004 - 12:00am

Playing the violin is very different as compared to playing the fool; unlike playing the fool, which is absurdly easy, comes naturally (to me at least) and has little or no rewards, playing the violin requires discipline,...

Young Star

The Pundaquit Festival / Two visiting artists

By SUNDRY STROKES | November 1, 2003 - 12:00am

With unswerving dedication to his self-imposed mission of providing impetus and inspiration to aspiring artists, the brilliant violinist Alfonso "Coke" Bolipata, who could by now be enjoying an international...

Opinion

All-American music

By SUNDRY STROKES | September 27, 2003 - 12:00am

A unique concert of exclusively American music featured 38-year old Chilean Conductor Eduardo Browne and celebrated international concertist Raul Sunico at the Philam Life Theater the other week.

Opinion

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