The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 5 | No. 27 | Cagayan de Oro City | February 12-18, 2018
Cagayan After Dark
Maestro serves up Chef’s Table of Piano Classics at Rodelsa Hall
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By The Night Stalker
n the weekend of 10 March 2017, some lucky Kagay-anons were served the equivalent of a Chef’s Table of Piano Masters by Maestro Massimo Folliero, a concert pianist from Milan, Italy and Piano Professor of Braga Conservatory of Music.
before performing it, much like how the head chef and sommelier does at a Chef ’s Table before serving each dish on the menu and beverage on the wine list. Starting with Claude Debussy's Reflections in the Water (Reflets A chef 's table is a table them the day’s freshest dans l'eau) from the located in the kitchen of menu choices, but the first volume of Images, a restaurant, reserved for wine steward (sommelier) Maestro Max explained: VIPs and special guests also makes several expert “With this piece Debussy where patrons are served suggestions of wines wanted the audience a themed tasting menu from which to choose. to feel the magic of the prepared and served by For this timely water when he composed the head chef himself. prelude to Valentine’s it. Using very fast notes, Not only does the Day dubbed Romantic sometimes in a very soft head chef communicate Impressions, Maestro tone, sometimes very with guests and offer Max did not only act the loud, he wanted the With students from the Liceo Conservatory of Music part of the head chef but audience to feel the many the sommelier as well. nuances of what water In deference perhaps can be from a drop to a to those in the audience wave and all others in By Asa T. Madale who joined his Master between.” Class earlier in the This is one of the The Department of common interests and same day and the many pieces Debussy Tourism (DOT) has goals, fostering a sense students from Liceo de wrote about water; officially endorsed the of peace and cooperation Cagayan University’s in particular, light Arkat A Lawanen Marawi which may not otherwise Conservatory of Music reflecting off its surface. Icon Dolls for Peace as occur,”Tourism Secretary and Dance, Folliero The piece creates an a means to strengthen Wanda C. Teo said. presented a short but image of water being not the preservation of the “By rebuilding fulfilling programme quite still, then becoming Maranao’s culture and and strengthening of Romantic and rapid, then decreasing in heritage. culture, economy, Impressionist Music from motion again. \ “Tourism can play and infrastructure, Claude Debussy, Sergei The Maestro next role in reconciliation the tourism industry Rachmaninoff, Frédéric performed Frédéric to unites communities provides the region Chopin and George Chopin Scherzo No. 2 (L-R) Asec Daniel Mercado,DOT Sec. Wanda C. Teo (center, that may have been a chance to make a holding the Marawi Icon Doll Arkat A Lawanen),ADWE Gershwin with a brief in B-flat minor, Op. 31 broken or displaced statement about the Chairperson A. Limbona & Mr Warly Cabarle, Chief of presentation of each piece maestro/PAGE 7 dolls/PAGE 7 Staff of Asec Mercado at DOT Central office, Manila. during conflict around Massimo Folliera performs Debussy’s Reflections in the Water (Reflets dans l’eau) at the Rodelsa Hall, Cagayan de Oro City on 10 Feb 2018 ( photo by mike baños , npn)
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