THE NATIONAL

ARTISTS OF THE
PHILIPPINES FOR
MUSIC

A Presentation by Dio, Ojeda, and Villanueva

 Philippine music, particularly
those of long ago, is linked to
Philippine cultural dance. Both are
used by people as a means of
artistic expression.
 Antonino R. Buenaventura

Jose Maceda

OVERVIEW Lucio D. San Pedro

Levi Celerio

Antonio J. Molina
ANTONINO R.
BUENAVENTURA
• Year of Conferment: 1988
• His legacy to Philippine music, according
to the NCCA, is a musical career "that
spanned seven decades of unwavering
commitment to advancing the frontiers of
Philippine music.“
• In 1935, Buenaventura joined Francisca
Reyes-Aquino to conduct research on
folksongs and dances that led to its
popularization.
• He was also a conductor and restored the
Philippine Army Band to its former
prestige as one of the finest military
bands in the world making it “the only
band that can sound like a symphony
orchestra”.
ANTONINO R.
BUENAVENTURA
Works
• Triumphal march
• Echoes of the Past
• History Fantasy
• Second Symphony in E-
flat
• Echoes from the
Philippines
• Ode to Freedom
JOSE MACEDA
• Year of Conferment: 1997
• Maceda embarked on a life-long dedication
to the understanding and popularization of
Filipino traditional music.
• His researches and fieldwork have resulted
in the collection of an immense number of
recorded music taken from the remotest
mountain villages and farthest island
communities.
• He wrote papers that enlightened scholars,
both Filipino and foreign, about the nature
of Philippine traditional and ethnic music.
His experimentation also freed Filipino
musical expression from a strictly
Eurocentric mold.
• His compositions are usually performed as
a communal ritual.
JOSE MACEDA
Compositions
• Ugma-ugma
• Pagsamba
• Udlot-udlot
• Ugnayan
• Aroding
• Suling-suling
 Ethnomusicology is proof that music
does not exist in isolation. Music is
explored alongside other fields, such
as cultural anthropology, performance
studies, and dance. This means that
different art forms can interact with
one another.
LUCIO D. SAN
PEDRO
• Year of Conferment: 1991
• His works “evoked the folk elements of
the Filipino heritage.“
• He was the conductor of the much
acclaimed Peng Kong Grand Mason
Concert Band, the San Pedro Band of
Angono, his father’s former band, and
the Banda Angono Numero Uno.
• His civic commitment and work with
town bands have significantly
contributed to the development of a
civic culture among Filipino
communities and opened a creative
outlet for young Filipinos.
LUCIO D. SAN
PEDRO
Works
• The Devil’s Bridge
• Sa Mahal Kong Bayan
• Lahing Kayumanggi
• Sa Ugoy ng Duyan
• In the Silence of the
Night
LEVI CELERIO
• Year of Conferment: 1997
• Levi Celerio is a prolific lyricist and
composer for decades. He effortlessly
translated/wrote anew the lyrics to traditional
melodies: “O Maliwanag Na Buwan” (Iloko),
“Ako ay May Singsing” (Pampango),
“Alibangbang” (Visaya) among others.
• He made it to the Guinness Book of World
Records as the only person able to make
music using just a leaf.
• A great number of his songs have been
written for the local movies, which earned
for him the Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Film Academy of the Philippines.
Levi Celerio, more importantly, has enriched
the Philippine music for no less than two
generations with a treasury of more than
4,000 songs in an idiom that has proven to
appeal to all social classes.
LEVI CELERIO
Songs
• Saan Ka Man
Naroroon
• Ikaw
• Misa de Gallo
• Pasko na Naman
 Joining together influences
from different countries create
a hybrid culture.
ANTONIO J.
MOLINA
• Year of Conferment: 1973
• The dean of Filipino Composers.
• Last of the musical triumvirate.
• Molina is credited with introducing
such innovations as the whole tone
scale, pentatonic scale, exuberance
of dominant ninths and eleventh
cords, and linear counterpoints.
• As a member of the faculty of the
UP Conservatory, he had taught
many of the country’s leading
musical personalities and educators
like Lucresia Kasilag and Felipe de
Leon.
ANTONIO J.
MOLINA
Works
• Hatinggabi
• Ang Batingaw
• Kung sa Iyong Gunita
• Pandangguhan
• Amihan
• Awit ni Maria Clara
 THE NATIONAL
ARTISTS OF THE
PHILIPPINES FOR
THEATER

A Presentation part two by Dio, Ojeda, and Villanueva

 Daisy Avellana

Honorata "Atang" de la
Rama

OVERVIEW Rolando S. Tinio

Salvador F. Bernal

Lamberto V.
Avellana
DAISY AVELLANA
• Year of Conferment: 1999
• The first lady of Philippine Topic.
• Her contributions to Philippine theater,
as cited, had brought "by encouraging
the establishment of performing groups
and the professionalization of Filipino
Theater.”
• Together with her husband, National
Artist Lamberto Avellana and other
artists, she co-founded the Barangay
Theatre Guild in 1939 which paved the
way for the popularization of theatre and
dramatic arts in the country, utilizing
radio and television.
DAISY AVELLANA
Plays
• Othello
• Macbeth in Black
• Casa de Bernarda
Alba
• Tatarin
HONORATA
"ATANG" DE LA
RAMA
• Year of Conferment: 1987
• Popularized “Mutya ng Pasig.“
• She was formally honored as the Queen
of Kundiman in 1979, then already 74
years old singing the same song
(“Nabasag na Banga”) that she sang as a
15-year old girl in the sarsuela Dalagang
Bukid.
• Atang firmly believes that the sarswela
and the kundiman expresses best the
Filipino soul, and had even performed
kundiman and other Filipino songs for
the Aetas or Negritos of Zambales and
the Sierra Madre, the Bagobos of Davao
and other Lumad of Mindanao.
HONORATA
"ATANG" DE LA
RAMA
Songs
• Pakiusap
• Ay, Ay, Kalisud
• Kung Iibig ka
• Madaling Araw
• Mutya ng Pasig
ROLANDO S. TINIO
• Year of Conferment: 1997
• Known for translating western classics
into Tagalog.
• Tinio’s work as a director is well
remembered as someone "whose original
insights into the scripts he handled
brought forth productions notable for
their visual impact and intellectual
cogency."
• His legacy as Teatro Pilipino’s artistic
director is his laborious efforts to
revitalize Filipino drama through the
revival of traditional works which is
described with "excellence and beauty of
his practice that claimed for theater a
place among the arts in the Philippines."
ROLANDO S. TINIO
Film Scripts
• Now and Forever
• Gamitin Mo Ako
• Bayad Puri
• Milagros
• Ang Kiri
SALVADOR F.
BERNAL
• Year of Conferment: 2003
• Used native Filipino materials.
• A theater designer and educator.
• Salvador F. Bernal designed more than
300 productions distinguished for their
originality since 1969.
• To promote and professionalize theater
design, he organized the PATDAT
(Philippine Association of Theatre
Designers and Technicians) in 1995 and
by way of Philippine Center of OISTAT
(Organization Internationale des
Scenographes, Techniciens et Architectes
du Theatre), he introduced Philippine
theater design to the world.
LAMBERTO V.
AVELLANA
• Year of Conferment: 1976
• "The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies.“
• He was the first to use the motion picture camera to
establish a point-of-view, a move that
revolutionized the techniques of film narration.
• Salvador F. Bernal designed more than 300
productions distinguished for their originality since
1969.
• Sakay was declared the best picture of 1939 by
critics and journalists alike and set the tone for
Avellana’s career in film that would be capped by
such distinctive achievements as the Grand Prix at
the Asian Film Festival in Hong Kong for Anak
Dalita; Best Director of Asia award in Tokyo for
Badjao, among others.
• Avellana was also the first filmmaker to have his film
Kandelerong Pilak shown at the Cannes International Film
Festival. Among the films he directed for worldwide release were
Sergeant Hasan, Destination Vietnam, and The Evil Within.
LAMBERTO V.
AVELLANA
• Year of Conferment: 1976
• "The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies.“
• He was the first to use the motion picture camera to
establish a point-of-view, a move that
revolutionized the techniques of film narration.
• Salvador F. Bernal designed more than 300
productions distinguished for their originality since
1969.
• Sakay was declared the best picture of 1939 by
critics and journalists alike and set the tone for
Avellana’s career in film that would be capped by
such distinctive achievements as the Grand Prix at
the Asian Film Festival in Hong Kong for Anak
Dalita; Best Director of Asia award in Tokyo for
Badjao, among others.
• Avellana was also the first filmmaker to have his film
Kandelerong Pilak shown at the Cannes International Film
Festival. Among the films he directed for worldwide release were
Sergeant Hasan, Destination Vietnam, and The Evil Within.
Many past and contemporary Filipino
films have received critical praise in
many international film festivals.
 The Philippines has a long and strong dramatic and
theatrical tradition: from precolonial rituals and
ceremonies, to the religious performances brought by
Spaniards, and to the outlandish American vaudeville.
From Atang de la Rama's sultry performances to Wilfrido
Ma. Guerrero's plays, Filipino dramatists and theatrical
practitioners and performers were known to be great and
passionate artists in any form and medium. With this great
and unwavering passion for the arts, the country has
produced many outstanding dramatists and performers.
SOURCES Avellana
♦ Buenaventura http://gwhs-stg02.i.gov.ph/~s2govnccaph/about-culture-and-art
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♦ Maceda http://gwhs-stg02.i.gov.ph/~s2govnccaph/about-culture-and-art
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