šµMUSIC Q3 L1 LT1: Traditional Music Filipino Composers
Dr. Lucio D. San Pedro (February 11, 1913-March 31, 2002)
Dr. Lucio D. San Pedro was named National Artist in 1991. He was the fourth of the eight children of Elpidio San Pedro and Soledad Diestro. His inclination to music could be traced from his grandparents who were organist and singer during the Spanish regime.
His early musical instructions started when he was five years old. His brother Antonio taught him how to play the banduria and octavina. He graduated from Pasig High School in 1932. It was in Pasig where he learned how to play the clarinet and saxophone from his father who had his own band.
After his graduation from high school, he wanted to pursue a degree in engineering but ended up as a scholar at the University of the Philippines. He graduated in 1938 with a Teacher's Diploma in composition and conducting. He took his post graduate studies in composition at the Julliard School of Music in New York in 1947-1948.
A. Positions and Activities
Band instructor for Ateneo de Manila, 1939-1941
Composition and Theory Department Chairman at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music
Faculty member of several conservatories of music, such as Centro Escolar University, Philippine Women's University, St. Scholastica's College, St. Theresa's College, and St. Paul's College
B. Selected Works
Orchestral Works
Ang Palabas Bukas (A Philippine musical in three acts) (1979)
Lupang Mahal ng Araw (Cantata) (1980)
Chamber Music
Melody in G for Violin and Piano (1937)
Woodwind Quartet (1959)
Choral Music
Umawit Kang Masaya (1980)
Motets for Organ and Voice (1984)
Vocal Music
Sa Ugoy ng Duyan (1943)
The Last Testament (1987)
Bernardino F. Custodio (May 26, 1911-2001)
The parents of Bernardino F. Custodio were Antonio Custodio and Eulalia Feliciano. He was a composer, conductor, and teacher. He studied piano under Pedro Elioraga and later enrolled as a full scholar at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music in 1925, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Music in Piano in 1930.
He studied composition and conducting under Alexander Lippay, Jeno Von Takacs, and Herbert Zipper.
A. Positions and Activities
ā¢ Faculty member of the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music
ā¢ Associate conductor of the Manila Symphony in 1940
ā¢ Director of the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music from 1958 to 1961
ā¢ Former Dean of the Yamaha School of Music Philippines, Inc.
ā¢ Delegate in the 1963 Conference of the International Society of Music Education in Tokyo
ā¢ Conducted the concerts of Emestina Crisologo and Reynaldo Reyes with the Manila Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and 1978. The compositions performed in the concert were Concerto No. 2 in F by Frederic Chopin, Concerto for Left Hand by Ravel, and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsodie on a Theme by Paganini.
B. Selected Works
Orchestral Music
Malayan Suite (1932)
Chamber Music
ā¢ Serenade for Violin, Cello, and Piano (1932)
Piano Solos
Sarimanok (1976)
ā¢ Pauli-uli (1974)
ā¢ Retired Dance (1978)
Vision (1981)
Hilarion F. Rubio (October 21, 1902-December 28, 1985)
The parents of Hilarion F. Rubio were Crispino Rubio and Faustina Francisco. His parents were not musicians. His early exposure to music came from his uncles who were band musicians in their own hometown.
His first musical lessons came from Father Amando Buencamino, an Aglipayan priest who served as a chaplain officer in the Philippine Constabulary. He was taught not only solfeggio but also different musical instruments, including the clarinet, violin, and harmonium. He was under the priest's tutelage in music until he was in high school. After he had graduated from high school, he enrolled at the Far Eastern Institute, where he completed an Associate in Arts degree (1927). He obtained his teacher's diploma in Science and Composition at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music in 1933.
A. Position and Activities
ā¢ Professor at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music
Director of the Centro Escolar School of Music
Opera conductor of the Manila Music School
ā¢ Founder of the Anak-Zapote Band
B. Awards
Friend of China (1954-1960)
ā¢ Most Outstanding Citizen of Bacoor in Music (1964)
ā¢ Study and Observation Grant to the U.S.A. and Japan awarded by the University of the Philippines and the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines (1967)
ā¢ Listed in the Directory of American Scholars (1951) and in International Biographical Directory, London (1978)
C. Selected Works
Orchestral Music
ā¢ Buhay at Kalikasan - Tularawan (1978)
ā¢ Simbuyo (1981)
Choral Music
ā¢ Silahis for Wind Septet (1978)
ā¢ Maligayang Araw quartet (1948)
ā¢ A Cult Session (1982)
Songs
ā¢ Sino Ka? (1943)
ā¢ What Is Beauty? (1944)
ā¢ Bukang-Liwayway (1947)
Band Music
ā¢ Three Kings Overture (1970)
ā¢ Ginintuang Araw Tone Poem (1975)
ā¢ Maharlika - Prelude and Fugue (1977)