NATIONAL

ARTIST FOR
MUSIC
LEVI CELERIO
(April 30, 1910 – April 2, 2002)

Levi Celerio breathed poverty

since day one of his life.

a Filipino composer and lyricist.

the youngest member of the

Manila Symphony Orchestra.
MATERIALS

Violin

Levi Celerio was invited to The

Merv Griffin Show, where he
played "All the Things You
Are" with 39 musicians.

The only leaf player in the world is in

the Philippines.
 Pasko
Na
Naman
SA UGOY
NG
DUYAN
ANG
PIPIT
NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC

Proclamation No. 1114,

President Fidel V. Ramos
proclaimed him a National
Artist for Music and
Literature.

October
October 9,
9, 1997
1997
 CULTURAL IMPACT

a perfect embodiment of the heartfelt sentiments and

valued traditions of the Filipino
Jose Maceda
(1917 - 2004)
BACKGROUND

•First Filipino avant garde composer

•Worked at a recording studio in

paris 1958 which specialized in
musique concrete
BACKGROUND

• a professor of piano and musicology

at the College of Music UP (1952-
1990)

• Executive Director of UP center for

ethnomusicology (1997)

• conferred the honor of National

Artist for Music (1997)
Materials
PIANO

ARRAY OF
INSTRUMENTS

INDIGENOUS
MUSIC
 GONGS AND BAMBOO

This panorama is a pictorial

view of music instruments
starting with older bamboo and
other instruments of
undetermined age, going on
two types of gongs-flat in
Northern Luzon and bossed in
the South.
 PAGSAMBA

Worship (ritual music for a

circular auditorium, text
from the Mass [Tagalog
translation])
Cassettes 100 (1971)

A composition for 100

cassette tape recorders
playing recordings of
indigenous Filipino
instruments and voices.
 CULTURAL IMPACT

•enlightened filipino foreign scholars about the nature

of Philippine traditional and ethnic music

•freed musical expression from a strictly Eurocentric

mold
Ernani Cuenco
( 1936-1988 )
B
A Filipino composer, film
scorer, musical director
C and music teacher
K
G
O Philippine National
Artist for Music in 1999
U
N
D
B
A
C Played with the Filipino
K Youth Symphony
Orchestra, the Manila
G Symphony Orchestra,
O and The Manila Chamber
Soloists from 1960-1970
U
N
D
Materials
PIANO

CELLO

INGENIOUS
VOICE MUSIC
Kahit Na Magtiis
 DILIGIN MO NG
HAMOG ANG UHAW
NA LUPA
KALESA
 CULTURAL IMPACT

Wrote an outstanding and memorable body of works

that resonate with the Filipino sense of musicality
and which embody an ingenious voice that raises the
aesthetic dimensions of contemporary Filipino
music.