T.

Lucino
Sacramento
were born
Licab SA on
June 30
1908. He
grew up in a
musical
environment
of his band
family owned
and financed.
At age seven,
he can play
all the
instruments
with the help
of their band
members. He
had his first
lessons in
piano and
Solfeggio
Francisco
Medina. At a
young age, he
was a
boarding
student of
Ateneo de
Manila and
studied under
Alimpio
Carluen.
He made his
first
composition
before he
graduated
Elementary
Carluen titled
The Seventh
Grade Ateneo
March. This
composition
was played by
a small
orchestra
during school
programs and
other
activities.
Back in
Nueva Ecija,
he learned to
play American
jazz. Because
he could play
all the
instruments
he became a
member of
the Nueva
Ecija High
School
orchestra.
He also
composed a
"love song"
titled "place-
Japan" which
is also his
first
published
composition.
He started
college in
Ateneo and
took the
Medicine
Preparatory
but later
shifted UP
Conservat ry
of Music as a
piano major.
He was
convinced by
Nicanor
Abelardo
shift in the
composition
and he
graduated
with this
major.
Upon his
return to
Nueva Ecija,
he composed
now and
then. As a
member of Le
Club bevy of
Cabanatuan,
he also
worked on a
ballad "My
Lips Can
Hardly Sing".
He returned
to teach
piano and he
even founded
a piano studio
with Ananias
Roxas
Cabanatuan.
He later set
up the piano
studios in
various
countries. He
moved to
Rosales,
Pangasinan
during the
war. There,
he organized
his own swing
band.
He went back
to Manila and
in 1945 he
became a
faculty
member of
Cosmopolitan
Colleges,
later became
executive
secretary,
and also
became the
Director. He
began to
compose again
as he became
one of the
first
members of
the League of
Filipino
Composers.
Among the
compositions
made are:
Festival
Overture
Cradle, ang
kanyang
unang
piano
konsiyerto
Petite Suite
Tatlong
Philippine
Vistas
Violin
Concerto
Florante at
Laura,
opera
Maharlika,
kinomisyon
ng First
Lady
Imelda
Marcos Ang
Bituin,
commmissi
oned ni
Pangulong
Ferdinand
E. Marcos