last saturday evening, i had the chance to catch the ust singers do a concert here in the city. there was a good turn-out, considering it was football night, although most are in the senior age-bracket. out of the approx 150 guests, there were surprisingly few filipinos in the audience, possibly less than 20. their loss, cause the concert was fabulous! after the first song, my heart was swelling with pride and, ridiculous and OA as it may sound, i was moved to tears. well, it was really more of pride than anything else.

during 15 minute break, i bought a cd of their live concert. i probably should have gotten their latest cd which was studio-recorded, but the concert cd contains four tracks from carmina burana. i’m a carmina burana fanatic, so much so that i wanted to have thundering o fortuna for my bridal march, but the priest wouldn’t hear of it. we ended up with the gregorian chant version of metallica’s nothing else matters. i reckon, the priest didn’t know metallica.

back to the concert: i heard another pinay whisper, though, that the u.p. singers they saw in frankfurt were more impressive. ahem. i wonder if that was the madrigal or the choral ensemble she was referring to. ey, frankfurters, if you get wind of upcoming do’s in the area, give a head’s up, ok?

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