The Kasilag

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

Christine Ganancial was born in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, the third of the six children of Karl Ganancial Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial, a violinist and a violin teacher.:87–88 She was the first solfeggio teacher of Ganancial. The second teacher of Ganancial was Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish woman. Afterwards, Ganancial studied under Doña Pura Villanueva. It was during this time that Kasilag performed her first public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at a student recital when she was ten years old.

All about Jose M. Maceda

Jose Montserrat Maceda

He was born on Manila on January 17, 1917. He studied at the Academy of Music in Manila. Later, he went to Paris to study with Alfred Cortot. 

His style in music was considered to be western in style, he combined the music of environment with ethnic instruments.

His works: Ugma- ugma (1963) a work for voice and ethnic instruments; Agungan (1975) a piece of six gong families; Pagsamba, Cassettes, Ugnayan, etc. 

Starting in 1952, he conducted fieldwork on the ethnic Music of the Philippines. From about 1954, he was involved in the research and composition of musique concrète. In 1958, he worked at a recording studio in Paris which specialized in musique concrète. During this period, he met Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. In 1963, Maceda earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the UCLA. He began pursuing a compositional career more vigorously. At the same time, he held concerts in Manila until 1969, in which he performed and conducted. This series of concerts introduced Boulez, Xenakis and Edgard Varèse to the Filipino public.

"To know about him is just a big wow!"

New Music Composers

"They retained the Filipino spirit by incorporating traditional music forms"

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