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[Title] => First Andrea O. Veneracion international choral competition
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The Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival will hold the first international choral competition in the country with the participation of selected choirs from different parts of the world. The festival will take place at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on August 7-10.
To celebrates the 50th anniversary this year of the world renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Cultural Exchange Department will present the MADz in a national concert tour this month in selected communities in the Visayas, March in Mindanao and October to November in Luzon.
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[Title] => Filipino choir bags top honors at Asian choral tilt
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The Novo Concertante Manila is the latest addition to the growing list of successful Filipino choirs in the international choral scene as it bagged the Grand Prize in the Asia Cantate International Choral Competition held recently in Phuket, Thailand.
The Philippine Madrigal Singers was conferred the prestigious Guidoneum Award 2010 by the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo, organizers of the Arezzo International Choral competition, one of the top choral competitions in the world.
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[Title] => UPSA in Comme d'Habitude
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UP Singing Ambassadors (UPSA) just arrived from its successful 7th European Goodwill Concert Tour in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
What started in 1963 as a group of students, alumni and faculty from the University of the Philippines-Diliman by National Artist for Music Andrea Veneracion turned out to be one of the most successful choirs in the world, The Philippine Madrigal Singers, also known as Madz.
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[Title] => Madz as UNESCO Artist For Peace
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Philippine Madrigal Singers made the country proud again as they were recently designated by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) director general Koichiro Matsuura as Artist For Peace.
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[Title] => UST Singers top California choral fest
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The University of Sto. Tomas Singers took top honors at the recently concluded 2009 California International Choral Festival and Competition held at the Performing Arts Center at San Luis Obispo, California.
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[Title] => Proud to be part of the UV Chorale
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CEBU, Philippines - The University of the Visayas Chorale is proud to have five of its members finally finished with college through their full choir scholarship.
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[Title] => The Madz after the Grand Prix
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Just in case you already have your fill of rock, pop and whatever pop acts around in the local concert scene then you might want to spend this Sunday evening, Sept. 7, with the Philippine Madrigal Singers in More Than Madrigals. Fondly referred to as Madz, the internationally renowned group was the first choir to win the Grand Prix twice in the history of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Arezzo, Italy. You may now find out why this happened by watching the Madz’s one-night only performance at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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Senators challenged the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) to name the former Cabinet official who allegedly facilitated the grant of gaming licenses to Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) so as not to cast doubt on all other former members of the Cabinet.
The bombshell revelation of Alejandro “Al” Tengco, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCor), may be likened to an improvised explosive device (IED) he triggered while he was still holding on to it. In a press statement he issued over the weekend, Tengco accused a certain former Cabinet official as allegedly “trying to intercede for POGOs,” or the Philippine Online Gaming Operators.
Senator Win Gatchalian accused the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of “sleeping on the job” after thousands of SIM cards were found in raids of POGO hubs in Pasay, Bamban and Porac. The raiding teams from the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) tagged these supposedly POGO operations as hotbeds of illegal activities by foreign criminal syndicates victimizing people here and abroad. They give our country a bad international reputation.
A former high-ranking government official tried to secure gaming licenses for several illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators that have recently been raided, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. said.
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