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• This once sickly boy who played the clarinet proficiently has
written several marches such as the “Triumphal March,”
“Echoes of the Past,” “History Fantasy,” Second
Symphony in E-flat, “Echoes from the Philippines,” “Ode
to Freedom.”
• 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
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Ramon P. Santos
• Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer,
conductor and musicologist, is
currently the country’s foremost
exponent of contemporary Filipino
music. A prime figure in the second
generation of Filipino composers in
the modern idiom, Santos has
contributed greatly to the quest for
• Simultaneous with this was a reverting back to more
orthodox performance modes: chamber works and
multimedia works for dance and
theatre. Panaghoy (1984), for reader, voices, gongs
and bass drum, on the poetry of Benigno Aquino, Jr.
was a powerful musical discourse on the fallen
leader’s assassination in 1983, which subsequently
brought on the victorious People Power uprising in
1986.
Panaghoy
Jovita Fuentes
• Long before Lea Salonga’s break into
Broadway, there was already Jovita
Fuentes‘ portrayal of Cio-cio san in
Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly
at Italy’s Teatro Municipale di
Piacenza. Her performance was hailed
as the “most sublime interpretation
of the part”. This is all the more
• In recognition of these achievements, she was
given the unprecedented award of
“Embahadora de Filipinas a su Madre Patria”
by Spain.
• Her dream to develop the love for opera among
her countrymen led her to found the Artists’
Guild of the Philippines, which was responsible
for the periodic “Tour of Operaland”
productions.
Ahay Kalisud
Felipe Padilla de Leon
• Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer,
conductor, and scholar, Filipinized
western music forms, a feat aspired for
by Filipino composers who preceded
him.The prodigious body of De Leon’s
musical compositions, notably the
sonatas, marches, and concertos have
become the full expression of the
sentiments and aspirations of the
• He is the recipient of various awards and
distinctions: Republic Cultural Heritage Award,
Doctor of Humanities from UP, Rizal Pro-Patria
Award, Presidential Award of Merit, Patnubay ng
Kalinangan Award, among others.