Pinay mom parenting her Caucasian/Filipino daughter in suburban America.
Mary with the PPO
15May2008 Filed under: Daily Author: MarysMom
My Ate’s husband is the current Resident Conductor with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO). The PPO is the premier orchestra in the Philippines and my brother-in-law, Agripino “Nonoy” Diestro is a world-class conductor, who very nicely took Mary and I, my sister (his wife) and their son (19-year-old Jopi, who also happens to be a cellist with the Manila Symphony Orchestra) and daughter, Ana (a budding violinist herself) to work with him one day last week at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
What a rare treat to hear these fine musicians during their rehearsal!
Mary’s favorite instrument is the bassoon.
Mary hangs out with the musicians during their break. That’s Tita Revi, she plays the Viola.
Right across from the CCP is Manila Bay.
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Welcome!
Mary is my "I'm Not a Baby!" daughter and this is my blog about her and our life in suburban America. Parenting tales, our travels and travails, forays into great and not-so-great restaurants, kitchen adventures--- all chronicled with as much photos as you can stand. Comments are very much appreciated --- let me know you dropped by! Thank you.
Gina
June 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Nice pictures n good view of the manila bay.
Cecil Batac
September 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Is your sister Gracia ‘Yeng’ Vergara? From what I know, she’s the wife of Nonoy Diestro. Yeng and I were classmates in UP and colleagues at work. Would appreciate if you could give me her email address or you could give her my email address.
Thanks.