Brazil did a 3D video mapping art on the famous Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro while well-loved blind Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performed an Easter concert at the Duomo or Catholic cathedral of Milan, keeping people’s spirits hopeful despite the pandemic.
The song has simple if predictable lyrics: “Sa lahay ng lumalaban, taus-pusong pasasalamat . . . Walang iwanan, tayo’y magtulungan . . . Sabay-sabay tayong babangon!” It was written by Kenneth Reodica, a graduating student of the UST Conservatory of Music and sung by UST Music students Jan Montenegro and Ryan Gabriel.
Meanwhile in the Philippines, acclaimed physician-artist Dr. Daniel Lerma has produced a classical realist acrylic painting, “Fides,” showing a physician with a mask examining the x-ray of a patient with the famous alleged face of Christ from the Shroud of Turin.
Meanwhile Rachel Fatima Jose Clamor, 23-year-old niece of historian and former National Commission for Culture and the Arts commissioner Regalado Trota Jose, has drawn a contemporary update of the iconic “Pieta” , showing the Madonna in Filipiniana costume and cradling a masked COVID-19 patient on in her arms.Meanwhile “Himati” records readings of Bicol poetry by Bicol celebrities, according to award-winning poet-filmmaker-publisher Kristian Cordero.