(Twenty-eighth of a series) On a good night, there’s a particular kind of hush that falls over a small jazz room right before a solo begins—the clink of glasses pausing, the low hum of conversation dropping to nothing, every ear angling toward the stage. It’s in that silence that saxophonist Dix Lucero does his clearest...
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Arthur Espiritu headlines all-‘kundiman’ fund-raising concert on May 14
Internationally acclaimed Filipino American tenor Arthur Espiritu takes center stage in his first-ever concert of “kundiman,” or Filipino love songs, on May 14 at Gallery MiraNila in Quezon City. Award-winning soprano Stefanie Quintin‑Avila and celebrated pianist Najib Ismail are also featured in the one-night-only “Mga Awit ng Pag-ibig at Kundiman,” which honors the legacy of...