This is a video shot in the Philipines of a Piano Concerto Competition. The winner in the under twelve catagory was eight year old Hannah F. Hua playing Mozart's Concerto number 1 in F major. The orchestra needed some tuning, but little Hannah is amazing.
What strikes me is two things. One is how incredibly far behind we are here in the US in terms of education. How so? Apparently most of the world still believes there's merit in teaching kids classical music, and studies show that studying music makes for better grades...
But the second thing that strikes me is the Philipines is a high ranked destination for men from the US to go and have sex with underage kids. How did our culture get into this mess?
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
A Concert from Afar...
6:32 AM
Matthew
1 comments:
Thanks for posting something about the Philippines. Filipinos have other professions aside from being known for domestic help, they have other talents too.
BTW I am trying to undo the effects of american evangelicalism on my people too.
Lito
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