Word: moro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music which dapper Conductor Herbert Zipper led his 86 Filipino musicians through last week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler...