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Loboc
Ambassador
Band tour in China  | | The
44-member Loboc Youth Ambassadors Band with conductor/trainor Rene Balbin, in
one of its local performances at the Loboc Children Theater before leaving for
China. |
Barely
a year after its inception, the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band has already embarked
in a two-week series of performances from Sept. 28 to Oct. 5 in schools and theater
in Shanghai and other places in the People's Republic of China and from Oct. 8
to 14 in various schools in Metro Manila.
While
in China, the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band together with the Loboc Children's Choir,
participated as guest in the Shanghai International Children's Choral Contest,
where choirs from different countries were participating.
This
was a four-day choir competition, Oct. 2 to 5, which was aimed to symbolize and
promote friendship between children from China and from other countries of the
world.
The
44-member Tarsier Group of the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band, with Rene Balbin as
conductor and Loboc Mayor Leon Calipusan as head of delegation, left last Sept.
28 for Shanghai and other places of the People's Republic of China. Governor Erico
B. Aumentado is also accompanying the group.
During
its tour, the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band performed at Song Kiang University in
Quingpu which was celebrating its 30th anniversary; Chang Shou Gong Yuan in Xiao
Zhu Ren Bao, Gao An Lu School, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Hangzhou Youth Palace,
among others. |
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Loboc Youth Ambassador Band's repertoire included excerpts from Return of the
Jedi, In the Stone, and Manhattan Skyline; Tuxedo Junction; Tequilla; Tinikling;
Impossible Dream combined with Careless Whisper, The One You Love, Can't Smile
Without You, Pure Imagination, Open Arms; and China Olympic Song, and soundtracks
from Star War, Live and Let Live, and Indiana Jones.
The
tour of the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band was sponsored by the Philippine Soong
Ching Ling Foundation and contest organizers, Shanghai International Children's
Choir Contest, and the People's Government of Xuhui District. Ambassador Carlos
Chan and Family is the major patron of the tour. | The
Loboc Youth Ambassador Band is a poverty alleviation project of the Loboc Youth
Education Association, with the support of the Philippines-Australia Community
Assistance Program (PACAP), LGU Loboc, the Province of Bohol, First Consolidated
Bank, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Ambassador Carlos
Chan and family.
To
date there are 164 members of the Loboc Youth Ambassador band belonging to the
first batch of students. All these 164 members have been assigned free musical
instruments each and can already perform in concerts. While the Tarsier Group
is performing in China, the Busay Group continues to perform at the Loboc Childrens
Theater every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
There
are also additional 400 students enrolled in Batch 2 of the Loboc School of Music.
50 of the students of the Loboc School of Music are enrolled as scholars at the
University of Bohol, Holy Name University and Central Visayas College of Agriculture,
Fishery and Technology.
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