20 March 2011 @ The Palms Country Club, Filinvest City, Alabang. In the company of family and friends, we celebrated . . . life . . . music . . . and beauty. My heart was brimming with a father’s pride as I introduced our daughter Patrese.
Patrese is the eldest of our 5 children. At a very young age, she was exposed to piano music through the loving influence of our late Mommy Ton, Patrese’s maternal grandmother whom she fondly called Mimi, a piano teacher herself. We enrolled Patrese to take piano lessons under the mentorship of Teacher Girlie, who incidentally was a piano student of Mommy. This March, Patrese turned 15. She has grown into, and continues to become, a beautiful and graceful lady. And with continued mentoring, I am confident that she can mature into a real artist in the field of piano music. Johanne Sebastian Bach once said which I quote: “I PLAY THE NOTE AS THEY ARE WRITTEN . . . BUT IT IS GOD WHO MAKES THE MUSIC.” Indeed, life . . . music . . . beauty . . . are gifts from God. And as we celebrate these gifts, it is only fitting that we offer the said celebration as a thanksgiving to the Almighty God, the Giver of the gifts. Below is a video creation of Tricia Paras, a student of Fine Arts, Advertising at UST, and a friend of Patrese.
20 March 2011 @ The Palms Country Club, Filinvest City, Alabang. In the company of family and friends, we celebrated . . . life . . . music . . . and beauty. My heart was brimming with a father’s pride as I introduced our daughter Patrese.
Patrese is the eldest of our 5 children. At a very young age, she was exposed to piano music through the loving influence of our late Mommy Ton, Patrese’s maternal grandmother whom she fondly called Mimi, a piano teacher herself. We enrolled Patrese to take piano lessons under the mentorship of Teacher Girlie, who incidentally was a piano student of Mommy. This March, Patrese turned 15. She has grown into, and continues to become, a beautiful and graceful lady. And with continued mentoring, I am confident that she can mature into a real artist in the field of piano music. Johanne Sebastian Bach once said which I quote: “I PLAY THE NOTE AS THEY ARE WRITTEN . . . BUT IT IS GOD WHO MAKES THE MUSIC.” Indeed, life . . . music . . . beauty . . . are gifts from God. And as we celebrate these gifts, it is only fitting that we offer the said celebration as a thanksgiving to the Almighty God, the Giver of the gifts. Below is a video creation of Tricia Paras, a student of Fine Arts, Advertising at UST, and a friend of Patrese.
