Mapeh Music 3rd Qtr

• Antonio Jesus Molina was born in December 26, 1894 until January 29, 1980
• Antonio Jesus Molina Lived 86 years old
• Molina - He was a conductor
• Molina - he composed Matinal in 1912
• Molina - He was a concert soloist, conposer, and conductor in Hanoi, Vietnam
• Molina- He thought harmony, composition music history and violoncello at the UP Conservatory of Music
• Molina - He was the first Filipino composer who was invited to perform at the Malacañan Palaca
• Molina- he led the first Philippine performance of Bach’s Oratorio
• Molina- He was remembered as the conductor of the first televised chiral concert which featured the Centro Escolar University Conservatory Chorus
• Alfred Santos Buenaventura was born in October 14, 1929 to March 22 1997
• Alfred Santos Buenaventura lived about 68 years
• Buenaventura- became a member of a band that marched the town
• Buenaventura- one of the sopranos of a Quezon city choir during the prewar war
• Buenaventura- was given first class musical training
• Buenaventura- his first composition is named Danza
• Buenaventura- affliated with the League of Filipino Composers
• Buenaventura- he received numerous outstanding awards in the music industry
• Buenaventura- one of his awards is the Republic Cultural Heritage Awards of which he win twice
• Buenaventura- a conductor and a music education teacher
• Buenaventura- based his compositions on epics, legends, and local heroes
• Buenaventura- used folk and tribal songs as themes as well as indigenous musical instruments for his compositions
• Buenaventura- his works comprise of cantatas, chamber music, concertos, ballets, dance dramas, fugues, preludes, and symphonies
• Buenaventura- composed more than 50 religious songs
• Buenaventura- some of his compositions were made for special pccasions sucgs as the 16th Centenary of St. Augustine, 400th year of Augustinian Recollect Mass, and the Philippine Music Festival
• Buenaventura- his works have also been played or performed in international virtuosos and religious presentations
• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born in August 31, 1917 to August 16, 2008
• Lucrecia Roces Kasilag Lived 91 years old
• Kasilag- earned a Bachelor of Arts in Aenglisg at the Philippine Women's University and a degree in teaching at St. Scholastica’s College
• Kasilag- she went to Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where she stufied theory witg Allen McHose, and Composition with Wayne Barlow
• Kasilag- faculty member of Up Conservatory of Music
• Kasilag- she became the dean of the Philippine Women’s University College of Music and Fine Arts from 1953 t0 1977
• Kasilag- known for being instrumental to the development of Philippine Music and culture.
• Kasilag- acknowledged for having incorporated traditional music in her work.
• Kasilag- founded the Bayanihan Folks Art Center for research and theatrical presentations and closely involved with the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company
• Kasilag- her works compruse a set of more than 250 compositions that belong to various music genres
• Dr. Ramon Pagayon Santos was born in February 25, 1941 to present
• Santos was born in Pasig, Rizal
• Santos- was exposed to music at a very young age because all members of his family except his father were members of the Pasig Artists Guild
• Santos- in elementary grade, he had his formal music lessons with his grandmother and violin lessons with another teacher
• Dr. Santos’s grandmother is Josefa Andrada Pagayon