“Music and Arts Performances honored and

Applauded in Marcos times”

By Gwyneth Bruno

Philippine colonization history gave a big impact on Philippine culture, tradition, and all
ways of life. From what the Filipinos encountered in the war period, the people will tend to
patronize the culture they know and live. In the late 1960s through the 1970s and including the
first year of martial law in the Philippines. The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) stands
as a prism for the nationalization of culture by serving as a venue, moderator, and patron.
Performance is considered as presentation performance to countries to attract investors and
traders from other countries to can conduct the globalization process to enhance the economic
status. Imelda Marcos, a vocal performer studied at Philippine Women’s University (PWU) has
a big contribution in terms of supporting national-level artists to patronize the Filipino talents.
From this period, performances became a powerful tool for a social and cultural transformation
that is gravely exemplified in Music. Like all forms of art, it is not neutral and it does obtain its
meaning from the dynamism and conflicts of society. Music is the active reception of an artist to
his economic, political, and cultural world. What influences the musician the most affects his
outputs, which is why his musical compositions have the ability to teach, speck, and, narrate an
opinion or ideology that could impact society. Culture defined as the arts and heritage is widely
referred to as a variety of practices and artifacts. Forming all of these, it tells that Music fully
maximized its power as an instrument to a progressive social change.
Cultural Performances are highly honored and applauded before. In this context, it relays
the roles of music and performances. But the Philippines is a developing country since the old
times, Theoretically, our government is having issues and facing poverty also at that time. The
government tends to question the large funding for the arts of a critical country like the
Philippines that cannot avail itself as many resources as more wealthy nations. For the Filipino
citizen, they tend to question the government for giving their priority to established theaters
instead of solving poverty in the community, in urban and rural areas.

Choral music is neither a required physical exercise nor a life cycle event. As the
performances go beyond for the Filipinos. There is a famous choral group that gave a huge
contribution to nationalization without the support funding and sponsorship from Ferdinand
Marcos, it is the Philippine Madrigal Choir. Philippine Madrigal Choir is an example of a
self-professed non-political ensemble that has been overtly nationalist at times. They performed
not only inside the country but they are grateful for performing internationally, therefore it crafted
pose to appeal to global, cosmopolitan audiences and the group sought to shine in international
venues.

NEW IDEAS:
Modernism becomes a problem in the community.
Language bears new ideas for the innovation of culture.
Philippine Madrigal Singers are self-professed and non-political
Music is the culmination of everything