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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1758179197665combo2.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Pablo Tariman photo by author</div>MANILA -- For more than five decades, veteran freelance writer Pablo Tariman has been covering cinema, ballet, theater and the performing arts with special focus on classical music. He has helped thousands of musicians not only by extensively writing about them and their works but in organizing concerts up to the provinces. Now at 76, Tariman has been battling tuberculosis, diabetes, hypertension, severe malnutrition and liver complications. Despite years of covering the arts, like any other freelance writer, eking out a living has been hard. He is in dire need of financial assistance for his hospitalization, continuing care and maintenance medication.In this regard, his long-time friends led by Joseph Uy and <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/life/05/21/22/tenor-arthur-espiritu-dissects-opera-musical-theater">internationally renowned tenor Arthur Espiritu </a>organized a fundraising show titled “Let the Wind Blow: A Bouquet for Pablo” to be held on September 26, Friday, at 7:30 p.m. at Mirror Theatre Studio, SJG Center, 8463 Kalayaan Ave., Brgy Poblacion, Makati City.To perform with Espiritu are sopranos Stefanie Quintin Avila and Angeli Benipayo, theater actress Jay Valencia Glorioso, baritone Ruzzel Clemeno, guitarist Aaron Aguila, cellist Renato Lucas, pianists Gabriel Allan Ferros Paguirigan and GJ Frias, clarinetist Herald Sison, and violinists Ghio Karylle Esteban and Cedie Nuñez.Uy told ABS-CBN News all the performers volunteered and waived their fees for the show.Among the pieces to be interpreted are some of Tariman’s favorites, such as “Bachianas Brasileiras” for voice and guitar, Neapolitan songs, “Hymn d’Amour,” the aria from “Korngold Die Tote Stadt” and Moriccone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe.” Tariman has been known as an impresario, organizing concerts in Manila and the provinces for internationally acclaimed pianist Cecile Licad, Espiritu, violin prodigy Jeanne Marquez, cello prodigy Damodar Das Castillo (now in Vienna), violinist EJ Villarin (based in Berlin), clarinet player Andrew Constantino (principal clarinet of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra in China) and many more. “Besides helping up-and-coming Filipino musicians, the whole classical music community in the country owes him a lot for he is the only one who writes and truly support classical music in the Philippines,” Uy said.For years, Tariman has been living in a simple, modest rented apartment near Pasig Cathedral or the Immaculate Conception Cathedral of Pasig. He has also organized classical concerts for the Pasig City Museum. During the COVID-19 pandemic years, <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/life/04/27/22/how-poetry-helped-pablo-tariman-cope-with-the-pandemic">he wrote poems, almost every day</a>. They were spot-on observations on the lives of common Filipinos, shared on social media and became viral not only in the Philippines. He came up with 300 poems and these musings on life as a septuagenarian were collected in his book of poetry, “Love, Life and Loss During the Pandemic”.Tariman as a poet has been immortalized by the Pasig City government under Mayor Vico Sotto. They used three stanzas from his “Ode to Frontliners,” inscribed on a concrete marker that honors medical workers during the pandemic years. The marker still stands at Plaza Familia in Pasig City, five years after Sotto unveiled it on December 30, 2020.Poetry also helped him cope with the <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/08/26/21/labi-ni-kerima-tariman-ibinalik-na-sa-pamilya">death of his daughter, poet-revolutionary Kerima Lorena Tariman-Acosta,</a> on August 20, 2021.<div> </div><div>Tickets for the fundraising can be availed via Cultural Arts Events Organizers at 0920-954-0053 or 0918-347-3027, or visit the website www.veniccio.com or email josephuy@yahoo.com.</div>

For more than five decades, veteran freelance writer Pablo Tariman has been culture with special focus on classical music. Now at 76, he is in dire need of financial assistance for his hospitalization, continuing care and maintenance medication.

For more than five decades, veteran freelance writer Pablo Tariman has been culture with special focus on classical music. Now at 76, he is in dire need of financial assistance for his hospitalization, continuing care and maintenance medication.

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Classical musicians join benefit show for veteran writer Pablo Tariman

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