STRINGER ' S NOTE
This blog will give its readers a glimpse on different genres of music like pop, rock, classic, mellow, and a lot more. Latest trends and updates about the current events in the music industry will also be featured.
YOU ' RE THE INSPIRATION CHICAGO
BY MA. ELLAINE MAGPANTAY
Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described " rock and roll band with horns " began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, generating several hit ballads. The group had a steady stream of hits throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Second only to The Beach Boys in Billboard singles and albums chart success among American bands, Chicago is one of the longest-running and most successful rock groups in history. The 1970s: ' Chicago ' The band released a second album, titled Chicago( also known as Chicago II), which was another double-LP. The album ' s centerpiece track was a seven-part, 13-minute suite composed by Pankow called " Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon. The 1980s: Changing Sound, and the Ballads CIt ' s a beautiful evergreen song that has stood the test of time and remains # 1 to many Chicago fans, such as myself. " You ' re the meaning in my life. You ' re the inspiration. You bring feeling to my life. You ' re the inspiration." hicago XIV( 1980), produced by Tom Dowd, relegated the horn section to the background on a number of tracks, and the album ' s two singles failed to make the Top 40.
MASK UNRAVELLED. MUSIC REVEALED.
BY MA BRIDGITTE RAFLORES Listen. http:// mp3crow. mobi / mp3-masskara-festival-music-2012. html( Click the link above and hit play button for the musical score) You won’ t have to go to Bacolod to try a Maskarra festival experience. It’ s just within your reach, within the bounds of your stingy personality, within the corners of your up-to-date resources. Have you gone to PUP last August 7, 2013? Well, that’ s a missed one if you haven’ t. I just wanna share a Masskara festival experience in PUP. Lemme.
It is the 12th Foundation Anniversary of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines – College of Communication that made me brought myself in there and joined the gaiety. And as part of their annual celebration, there was a streetdance organized. Arrayed in bright colors, participants dance to their graces with the festivals they are representing of. Caught my ear was the musical score of the Masskara Festival group from BABRC I-1N. Energy. Liveliness. That suggests the festival of Masskara.( Because, indeed, there is no such festival that hasn’ t merrymaking or dull-spirited festivity.) And the lovely smiles that would attract and make you show yours too, it’ s such an experience worth watching. It does not only highlight the beauty of our land but touches our socio-cultural values.
Did you have a visit on the link above? The music is something away from the current genres we have at present, isn’ t it? From a folk music, it transcends to an upbeat, modern one. A proof that tastes of people differs from time to time, generation by generation.“ Kari na sa Bacolod kag magsinadya kita sa MassKara!”( Come to Bacolod and let’ s have fun at MassKara Festival!), as the song says and it’ s like you can never refuse to such invitation.
We look for( mostly) several foreign songs that are reiterated time to time in radios. We get hooked at it. We forget the ones we are rooted upon. But thanks, we have events like this, for the unremembered will be remember, the tones that will linger in our soul, that once bound our fellows as whole,-- Masskara Festival, its music, will be ours in our home.“ Masskara, Pasigarbo kanato ini!”( Masskara, This is Our Pride!)
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED TURNING?
BY ESSAN MARIE O. CALAJATAN
" Where Were You( When the World Stopped Turning)" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Written in the wake of the September 11 attacks, it was introduced at the Country Music Association ' s annual awards show on November 7, 2001. It was released in November 2001 as the lead single from the album Drive, and reached the top of the U. S. Billboard country....( Continue to page 5.)