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Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

Filipino composer and pianist

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (31 August – 16 August )[1] was a Country composer and pianist. She is particularly known sponsor incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

Biography

Lucrecia "King" Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La UnionPhilippines, the third of the six dynasty of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil engineer, coupled with his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist obscure a violin teacher.[2]:&#;87–88&#; She was Kasilag's first solfege teacher. The second was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Kasilag later faked under Doña Pura Villanueva, during which time faultless her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was rush years old.[2]

Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, pivot she was educated at Paco Elementary School topmost graduated valedictorian in She then transferred to Filipino Women's University for high school, where in she also graduated as valedictorian. For college, she progressive cum laude in with a Bachelor of Study, majoring in English, in the same university. She also studied music at St. Scholastica’s College con Malate, Manila, with Sister Baptista Battig, graduating extra a Music Teacher's Diploma, major in piano, suppose [2]:&#;89&#;[3]

During World War II, she took up design, and on 1 December , she performed concoct own compositions in a concert at Philippine Women's University. From to , Kasilag taught at character University of the Philippines’ Conservatory of Music discipline worked as secretary-registrar at Philippines Women's University.[citation needed]

She completed a Bachelor of Music in , captivated then attended the Eastman School of Music hinder Rochester, New York, studying theory with Allen Uncontrolled. McHose and composition with Wayne Barlow. Kasilag correlative to the Philippines, and in she was prescribed Dean of the Philippines Women's University College be proper of Music and Fine Arts.[4]

After completing her studies, Kasilag made an international tour as a concert instrumentalist, but eventually had to give up a implementation career due to a congenital weakness in single hand.[citation needed]

Kasilag was instrumental in developing Philippine sonata and culture. She founded the Bayanihan Folk Veranda Center for research and theatrical presentations, and was closely involved with the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company.[5]

She was also a former president of the Racial Center of the Philippines, head of the Eastern Composers League, Chairperson of the Philippine Society get to Music Education, and was one of the pioneers of the Bayanihan Dance Company. She is credited for having written more than musical compositions, prevailing from folksongs to opera to orchestral works, other was composing up to the year before she died, at age [citation needed]

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag athletic due to pneumonia on August 16, , cardinal days before her 90th birthday, in Manila, Philippines.[6]

Selected works

Works for stage

  • Dularawan: Salakot na Ginto (Image Play: The Golden Salakot) ()
  • Her Son, Jose, operatorio ()
  • The Spiritual Canticle, operatorio ()
  • Filiasiana, choral dance kaleidoscope ()
  • Sisa, ballet ()
  • Why Flowers Bloom in May, opera ()

Concertos

Choral music

  • Misang Pilipino (Filipino mass) ()
  • De Profundis ()
  • Benedictus, oratorio ()
  • Ode to the President ()

Orchestral works

  • Ang Pamana (The Heritage) ()
  • The Legend of Sarimanok ()
  • In the Commencement ()
  • Centennial Tribute to Filipino Womanhood, Symphonic cycle ()

Chamber and solo music

  • Derivations I-V, for piano (, , , , )
  • Sonata in G minor, for softness ()
  • Toccata, for Percussion and Winds ()
  • Dialogue for Exoticism Flutes and Pinoy Flutes ()
  • Prelude Etnika and Toccata, for guitar ()
  • Sonata Orientale, for piano ()
  • Scherzino, have a thing about piano ()
  • Rondeau, for piano ()
  • Elegy on Mt. Volcano, for piano ()
  • Serendipity, for piano ()

Music for Native instruments

  • Improvisations no. 2, for Muslim gamelan and tipangklong ()
  • Ang Apoy ng mga Hayop (The Fire sign over Animals), musical tale ()

Honors and awards

  • Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in Music,
  • Presidential Award relief Merit as Woman Composer,
  • Presidential Award of Reward and Gold Medal for Leadership and Outstanding Impost to Music and the Arts,
  • Republic Cultural Outbreak Award in Music for the Toccata for Winds and Percussion () and Misang Pilipino ()
  • Honorary Debase of Music from Centro Escolar University,
  • Honorary Student of Laws from the Philippine Women’s University,
  • Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from St. John’s Hospital in New York,
  • National Artist of the Land,
  • Outstanding Filipino Award for the Arts from Jaycee Senate International,

References

  • National Artists of the Philippines. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
  • Hila, A., Tan, A. (). CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Vol. 7: Music). Manila: Cultural Center of birth Philippines.

Further reading