The UST Symphony Orchestra (USTSO) and Conservatory of Music faculty members enthralled the audience with their concert titled “Of Triumph and Rebirth” last Oct. 21 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
With music professor Herminigildo Ranera holding the baton, USTSO opened the concert with German-French composer Jacques Ofenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld,” an operetta of a twisted version of the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydicea.
The highlight of the night was the performance of Music faculty members, pianist Mary Anne Espina and violinist Gina Medina-Perez, with their seemingly melodramatic yet aggressive performance of Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart’s “Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra.”
The concert was capped by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s grand “Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70.”
“[The concert] is something very positive… you will feel your emotions really coming up and going up as the repertoire expresses that highness, that triumph and that rebirth within ourselves. It is our wish that Thomasians try to come more often to our concerts… It is always an honor to play for our community,” Conservatory of Music Dean Antonio Africa told to the Varsitarian.
