Philippine Cinema and Performing Arts (Folk Dances and Music)

[tigidig14]

magsayaw na lang ulit ako

[sugarboy]

Thread title self explanatory.

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San Miguel kills orchestra, chorale
(Philippine Daily Inquirer Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)

THE SAN MIGUEL Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale are dead.

Late last month, instrumentalists of the only corporate-supported orchestra in the country were summoned one by one by the big bosses who informed them of the non-renewal of their contracts.

Ditto with the members of the San Miguel Chorale.

Many of the orchestra and chorale members did not get separation pay.

It is not known what happened to Ryan Cayabyab, the executive director and artistic director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Insiders said that San Miguel Corp., the biggest food and beverage company in Southeast Asia, was more inclined to support basketball. San Miguel has four basketball teams in the professional league: San Miguel, Ginebra, Coca-cola and Purefoods.

The latest income statement by San Miguel showed the conglomerate is in the utmost pink of health. In November, it reported that its nine-month net income grew 18 percent, to P6.17 billion from P5.22 billion in the same period last year, boosted by its strong local and international beer operations and strong sales by its Australian dairy unit, National Foods Ltd.

Both founded in 2001, the highly promising San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale were suddenly disbanded early this year while no one was looking.

And no one is expected to drink to that.

[kiretoce]

Are they state-funded or privately sponsored?

[sugarboy]

privately sponsored

[Louman]

What a way to start a new thread. Ouch. What a lost. I have a CD on some of their works. They were really good. A talented orchestra dies while Wowowee continues to pump out more craptacular music than Kevin Federline.

[OtAkAw]

All because of the "jologs" image Philippine Pop Culture is trying to inject to the Filipinos. I can't believe San Miguel did this! Well, I guess one of the reasons is because Pinoys would rather listen to stupid, crappy, mediocre, substandard, idiotic, moronic and ultimately garbage-quality "novelty" songs from the immortal Lito Camo than take time in rejuvenating their mind and ears with Vivaldi's, Bach's and Beethoven's classics.

Philippine music will go down if this persists. Don't let the jologs subculture ruin everything!

[laquacherra]

i guess it all boils down to $$$... there's more money to be made from a basketball team as pinoys are generally addicted to basketball and i bet only a handful appreciates classical music

[laquacherra]

Originally Posted by OtAkAw

All because of the "jologs" image Philippine Pop Culture is trying to inject to the Filipinos. I can't believe San Miguel did this! Well, I guess one of the reasons is because Pinoys would rather listen to stupid, crappy, mediocre, substandard, idiotic, moronic and ultimately garbage-quality "novelty" songs from the immortal Lito Camo than take time in rejuvenating their mind and ears with Vivaldi's, Bach's and Beethoven's classics.

Philippine music will go down if this persists. Don't let the jologs subculture ruin everything!

in addition, and i guess those who do appreciate classical music would rather listen to pavarotti, bocceli, il divo and josh groban

[ishtefh_03]

waahh... i love listening to chorale groups like philharmonic orchestra then ryan cayabyab pa!!... so i guess mostly choral groups na lang is yung mga different schools na lang like UST Singers, UP madrigal, Ateneo Glee Club etc...

well. kenneth, you got a point there, i only got interested in such music (chorale music) coz i became a member of archi chorale and been a member in choir in our church when i was a kid... then we were competing too that's why i listened to different chorale groups... for some i guess, it's just a piece of crap...

[Rajah_Soliman]

this is sad news

do we have any chance of winning an international basketball title????

Originally Posted by sugarboy

Thread title self explanatory.

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San Miguel kills orchestra, chorale
(Philippine Daily Inquirer Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)

THE SAN MIGUEL Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale are dead.
Insiders said that San Miguel Corp., the biggest food and beverage company in Southeast Asia, was more inclined to support basketball. San Miguel has four basketball teams in the professional league: San Miguel, Ginebra, Coca-cola and Purefoods.

[kiretoce]

It also comes down to education, do they have music education/appreciation classes in the primary and secondary levels? A person cannot fully appreciate classical music if they haven't been exposed to it at a younger age.

[Askal82]

I thought this thread is about awareness of the classical music in the Philippines until Lloyd doused us with a bucket of cold water as a starter with issues about its deteriorating status in the country.

As Otakaw points out, the music has become too commercialized making it more appealing to the tacky and unsophisticated tastes of the masa.

[Louman]

Great moments in Philippine music...

"....MOSHI MOSHI ANONE ANONE ANONE! MOSHI MOSHI ANONE.. Karaoke!"
".... Boom tarat tarat! Boom tarat tarat! Taraaaaarat taraaaarat.. BOOM BOOM BOOM!"
"....ispageting pababa pababa nang pababa....."

That was another great moment in Philippine music.

haha.

Here is a movie in which the former SM orchestra performed the music for it.

http://stage6.divx.com/members/236398/videos/1092402

You need to register to see it.

[KulasKusgan]

[kiretoce]

Who/What/When/Where?

[KulasKusgan]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

Who/What/When/Where?

that was last year during the asean tourism forum here in davao. from the photogallery of http://www.atfdavao.com/

[Lili]

Oh that is so sad. I actually know a violinist from San Miguel Orchestra.

Let us now convert this thread to musical appreciation of our own Filipino classical music. How I miss listening to the old kundimans we used to sing in school during Linggo ng Wikang Pilipino.

Kundiman: Our Signature Love Song
By Della G. Besa

The kundiman is the Philippines’ signature love song, generally expressing the forlorn lament of a faithful lover pining for his beloved. Written in triple time, and predominantly in the minor key, it is closely related in form to its predecessors: the kumintang, which is strangely enough, a war song; and the awit, direct offspring of the kumintang. Both these forms share the same rhythmic pattern and melodic inflection, which also reappear, although somewhat altered, in the kundiman.

The origin of the term kundiman is the subject of several theories, one being that is the contraction of “kung hindi man,” literally meaning “if it were not so.” This phrase was a stock formula used in many early kundimans, which gives insight into the plaintive character of the song.

Interestingly, the form took on a patriotic cast in the early days as a reaction to the Spanish practice of forbidding the Filipinos any display of nationalism. The result was an outpouring of feelings in song, expressing love for a woman who symbolized the Motherland. “Jocelynang Baliwag” (circa 1896), for example, was popular among the revolutionaries, and called the “kundiman of the Revolution,” because although disguised as a long song dedicated to a young beauty of Baliwag, Bulacan called Josefa (Pepita) Tiongson y Lara, it really spoke of the country they were working to free (“Happy Eden in which are enthroned/Enjoyment and sweet joy…”).

The era of the kundiman is generally set between 1800 and 1930, in which the form underwent several distinct phases. What started as an expression of love through an extemporized text set in preexisting melodies next underwent semistylization, in which the metric pulses of Western dance forms – the danza, the waltz, the fandango – were integrated into the musical style. Then came the change from the extemporized text to literary-poetic verse forms by poets and fictionists like Jose Corazon de Jesus, who wrote the lyrics of the still-famous, patriotic “Bayan Ko” (My Country: A bird free to fly/ Weeps when caged…”), Deogracias A. Rosario and Jesus Balmori. The songs, however, continued to express unrequited and undying love, along with a resignation to heartbreak and pain.

During the early decades of the 20th century, in the American colonial regime, the kundiman underwent a final transformation as a result of the composers’ exposure to the academe. Formally trained musicians such as Fransisco Santiago and Nicanor Abelardo elevated it to the status of an art song. Santiago is credited with taking the simple folk song from and giving it three distinct parts. His first kundiman was “Anak Dalita” (Child of Woe) in 1917 (“I am the child of woe/burdened with tears… Let your heart fall to me/ and let fall life and hope”). Other important compositions were “Pakiusap” (Plea: ”I plead with you to take pity on me/ Even unto death, I only love once…”) and “Madaling Araw” (“Dawn”).

Nicanor Abelardo later wrote kundimans believed to have been inspired by Santiago’s works. Among his most famous are “Mutya ng Pasig” (Muse of Pasig), “kundiman ng Luha” (kundiman of Tears: “Let fall your perfumed handkerchief/ to wipe away my heart’s tears…), and “Nasaan Ka Irog” (Where are You, My Love). It was alos at about his time that kundimans were used by sarswela composers for their plays’ love songs, a practice that would lead, in the late 1930s and after World War II, to similar use of the songs in film musicals.

“Bituing Marikit” (Beautiful Star), for example, was composed in 1926 by Nicanor Abelardo, to lyrics by sarswela writer Servando de los Angeles. Using the rhythm of a danza, it speaks of a lover begging for a ray of light from his loved one, a distant and unreachable shining star. It was used in 1937 as the title song of a film, and is now a staple in the repertoire of Filipino singers:

Bituing marikit sa gabi ng buhay
Ang bawat kislap mo’y ligaya ang taglay
Yaring aking palad iyong patnubayan
At kahit na sinag ako’y bahaginan

Natanim sa puso ko yaong isang pag-ibig
Na pinakasamba sa loob ng dibdib
Sa iyong luningning laging nasasabik
Ikaw ang pangarap, bituing marikit

Lapitan mo ako, halina buitin
Ating pag-isahin ang mga damdamin
Ang sabik kong diwa’y huwag mong uhawin
Sa batis ng iyong wagas na pag-giliw

(Beautiful star in the night of life
Each sparkle from you bears joy
Guide my fortunes
And share with me even just a ray of light

Planted in my heart is this one love
Center of worship within my breast
Always hungry for your light
You are the dream, beautiful star

Come close to me, come O star
And let us make all feelings one
Do not let my parched soul thirst
In the waters of your pure love.)

In contemporary times, the term kundiman has now come to mean not only a specific music-literary form, but also a particular musical sentiment and style. This sentiment is still felt in the romantic ballads by composers such as Ernani Cuenco, Geroge Canseco, and Leopoldo Silos. Jazz musicians and composers Angel Peña, for example, is known for a modern kundiman called “Iyo Kailan Pa Man” (Yours for Always) with words by master lyricist Levi Celerio, in which the sentiments reflect the traditional longing: “…the days have gone by/ and your bow has been forgotten/ and my heart, O my love/ waits in sadness.”

http://www.filipinoheritage.com/hist...e_lovesong.htm
2001

[sugarboy]

Folks, we already lost the San Miguel Chorale and the San Miguel Orchestra. Let us not lose DZFE 98.7 which is the only classical station in the country.

DZFE by the way, not only features the classics from the west but gives equal emphasis on the compositions of local talent as stated by Lili above.

[Lili]

In Visayan, my favorite is Usahay.

[KulasKusgan]

i was looking for "salamin ng buhay" by george canseco/ryan cayabyab for basil valdez. wala yatang madodownload. di na kasi patok sa mga bata ang mga ganyang klaseng kanta.