CPAR MIDTERMS

• ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTIST

  The Republic of the Philippines, through the National

  Commission for Culture and the Arts and the

  Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), established

  the Order of the National Artist Award or the Orden

  ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining on April 27, 1972

  under proclamation No. 1001.
• ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTIST

  This award seeks to give honor to the Filipino

  individuals with outstanding share in the cultural

  heritage and cultural identity of the country by

  means of their valuable efforts and contribution to

  Philippine arts.
• Antonio R. Buenaventura

  • Research on and popularize

  Philippine folk songs and

  dances in 1935.

  • He wrote songs and musical

  arrangements based on the

  folk songs of different ethnic

  groups in the country.
• Antonio R. Buenaventura

  • Conductor of Philippine Army

  Band.

  • With his lead, Philippine army

  Band was tagged as "the only

  band that can sound like a

  symphony orchestra."
• JOSE MACEDA

  • Life-long music career

  focused on understanding

  and popularizing Filipino

  traditional music.

  • His paper led to the

  understanding and

  appreciation of the ethnic

  and traditional music of the

  country locally and abroad.
• LUCRECIA KASILAG

  • Reinforces the Filipino's

  appreciation to music by

  fusing Western influences to

  Philippine ethnic music. She

  integrated ethnic

  instruments in her orchestral

  productions.
• ERNANI J. CUENCO

  • He is one of the remarkable

  singer, composer, film scorer

  and musician in his time.

  • Many of his songs etched a

  mark in the hearts of the

  Filipinos due to his style of

  incorporating Kundiman

  in his ballad love

  songs.
• LUCIO SAN PEDRO

  • Lucio San Pedro is a master

  composer known for creatively

  using folk idioms in his musical

  compositions. Unlike other

  artists, he did not incorporate

  folk song materials in his works.

  Instead, he extracted the Filipino

  essence and style from the folk

  materials and used them in his

  compositions.
• ANTONIO J. MOLINA

  • His contribution to the Philippine

  music is his use of folk music in

  his works. He innovated the

  Philippine music in his time by

  using folk instrumental like the

  kulintangan and gabbang.

  • He composed more than 300

  works and two-thirds of which

  used traditional music.
• FRANCISCO FELICIANO

  • Francisco Feliciano was a

  musician, composer, teacher, and

  conductor known for

  incorporating "Asianess" in his

  music.

  • His works show the rich culture

  and ethnicity of Asia especially

  the Philippines.
• LEVI CELERIO

  Levi Celerio started playing

  the violin when he was II

  years old. Due to his

  extraordinary talent in music,

  Alexander Lippay of the

  University of the Philippines

  Conservatory of Music

  recommended him at the

  Academy of Music Manila for

  a scholarship.
• RAMON SANTOS

  • Ramon Santos music highlights

  Asia's and Philippines rich artistic

  tradition and features elements

  from western and non-western

  areas. He combined Philippine

  indigenous instruments and

  vocals to orchestral instruments

  and other instruments from

  foreign nations like the Javanese

  ganmelan.
• JOVITA FUENTES

  • known for her portrayal of Cio-cio

  san in Madame Butterfly, which

  was held in Treatro Municipale di

  Piacenza in Italy Spain awarded

  her as the "Embahadora de

  Filipinas a su Madre Patria" for

  outstandingly portraying different

  roles in numerous musical

  performance in Europe.
• FELIPE PADILLA DE LEON

  • He is a "people's musician" for the

  sentiments and aspirations of the

  Filipino people in times of war and

  of peace are evident in his musical

  works.
• ANDREA VENERACION

  • Played significant role in the

  development of the Philippine

  choral music.

  • Founder of the world-renowned

  choral group, the Philippine

  Madrigal Singers.
• FRANCISCA REYES AQUINO

  • In 1920 she made a research about the

  different folk dances in the Philippines.

  • Known as the "Folk Dance Pioneer" of the

  country. The Bureau of Education

  distributed her work about folk dances

  as a mean to promote the cultural

  heritage to the students.

  • Due to her valuable effort, she was

  Republic Award of merit

  awarded as the

  by the former President Ramon

  Magsaysay.
• Ramon Obusan

  • Promoted and perform the Philippines

  ethnic dances with utmost respect and

  authenticity.

  • He research about the different ethnic

  dances in the Philippines to perfectly

  perform their dances.

  • Some of his known full length

  presentations: Kayaw 68, Kayaw 74,

  Vamos a Belen! Series, Noon po sa amin,

  Kasaysayan ng lahi, Maynila, The Rare

  and unpublished dances.
• Alice Reyes

  • She developed the unique Filipino

  modern dance idiom.

  • She creatively interweaved the ethnic

  dance, modern dance and ballet

  producing a contemporary routine

  dance.

  • Some of her major works are Amada,

  Tales of Manuyu, Bayanihan

  remembered, Rama Hari, At a Maranaw

  gathering.
• Leonor Orosa Goquingco

  • Also known as the "Trailblazer", "Mother

  of Philippines theater Dance" and "Dean

  of Filipino Performing Arts Critics"

  Significantly contributed to the progress

  of the Philippine dance.

  Tagged as her most ambitious work:

  • Philippine Life

  Legend

  • And Love

  • A dance epic
• Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula

  • She studied the country's folk

  and ethnic dances for 4

  decades.

  • She was the dance director of

  Bayanihan Philippine dance

  company for 3 decades.

  • Among her major works: Singkil,

  Vinta, Tagabili, pag-Diwata,

  salisid
• Daisy Avellana

  "First Lady of the

  • She was the so-called

  Philippine Theater".

  • She significantly became part of some

  theater productions (e.g. Othello,

  Macbeth in Balck, Diego Silang, Walang

  sugat)

  • She popularized the Philippine theater

  and dramatic arts by founding the

  together with

  BARANGAY THEATER GUILD,

  his husband National Artist Lamberto

  Avellana.
• Rolando Tinio

  • An outstanding stage director, poet,

  thespian and playwright. He established

  and became the administrator of the

  Ateneo Experimental Theater. He

  handled Teatro Pilipino and revived

  sarswela and other traditional Filipino

  drama.

  • His major works include Now and

  Forever, Gamitin mo ako, Milagros, Ang

  Mestiza (sarswela), Orosman and Zafira

  (komedya)
• Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero

  • Mentored and trained many performing

  artist for 35 years.

  • Introduced and popularized Philippine

  Theater to different parts of the country

  by establishing the UP mobile Theater.

  • His major works include Wanted: A

  chaperon, Condemned, In unity, Three

  rats, The forsaken house.
• Homorata "Atang" dela Rama

  • Hailed as the Queen of Kundiman.

  • She perform kundiman and filipino

  songs for indigenous communities all

  over the country.

  • Sarswelas she wrote:

  • Puri at Bahay

  • Anak ni Eba

  • Aking ina
• salvador F. Bernal

  He was an exceptional theater designer who

  designs hundreds of theater productions. He

  was also a Professor in UP Diliman and Ateneo

  de Manila Univ.

  He established the PATDAT (Phil. Assoc. of

  Theater Designers and Techncians) in 1995.

  He internationally introduced the Phil Theater

  design through Philippine Center of OISTAT

  (Organization Internationale des

  Scenographers, Technicians, et architectes du

  theatre)