Last week’s extra-busy concert action on the classical-jazz fronts, including season-closers, was a rewarding feast.

With Ilan Volkov conducting, Leonidas Kavakos was the gripping soloist in the Shostakovich First Violin Concerto.

The journey of the Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has been one of remarkable resilience and profound cultural significance.

Who would think that with World War II still raging in 1945, the Manila Symphony Orchestra was actually organizing a concert? Herbert Zipper, the conductor, had been imprisoned earlier by the Japanese ...