The Order of National Artist

Activity 2: Evaluate
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MUSIC
Ryan Cayabyab
Is a Filipino musician, composer and conductor. He was the Executive and Artistic Director for
several years for the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was named as
National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 2018.
His Contributions:
- Rama-Hari (Two-act musical ballet, 1980), Katy! The Musical (Two-act musical, 1988)
,Smokey Mountain (Pop CD album, 1990), One Christmas (Christmas Album, 1993), Noli Me
Tangere (Tele-sine musical,1995)
Felipe Padilla de Leon
Is a composer, conductor, and scholar, Filipinized western musicforms, a feat aspired for by
Filipino composers who preceded him.
His Contributions:
Mariang Makiling Overture (1939), Roca Encantada, symphonic legend (1950), Maynila
Overture (1976), Orchesterstuk(1981); choral music like Payapang Daigdig, Ako’y Pilipino,
Lupang Tinubuan, Ama Namin; and songs Bulaklak, Alitaptap, and Mutya ng Lahi.

DANCE
Alice Reyes
The name Alice Reyes has become a significant part of Philippine dance parlance. As a dancer,
choreographer, teacher, and director, she has made a lasting impact on the development and
promotion of contemporary dance in the Philippines.
Her Contribution:
Major works: Amada (1969), At a Maranaw Gathering (1970) Itim-Asu (1971), Tales of the
Manuvu (1977), Rama Hari (1980), Bayanihan Remembered (1987).
Ramon Obusan
Is a dancer, choreographer, stage designer, and artistic director. He was also acknowledged as a
researcher, archivist and documentary filmmaker who broadened and deepened the Filipino
understanding of his own cultural life and expressions.
His Contributions:
- “Vamos a Belen! Series” (1998-2004) Philippine Dances Tradition
- “Noon Po sa Amin,” tableaux of Philippine History in song, drama and dance
- “Obra Maestra,” a collection of Ramon Obusan’s dance masterpieces
- “Unpublished Dances of the Philippines,” Series I-IV

THEATER
Severino Montano
Playwright, director, actor, and theater organizer, Severino Montano is the forerunner in
institutionalizing “legitimate theater” in the Philippines. Taking up courses and graduate degrees
abroad, he honed and shared his expertise with his countrymates.
His Contributions:
- He established a graduate program at the Philippine Normal College for the training of
playwrights, directors, technicians, actors, and designers. He also established the Arena Theater
Playwriting Contest that led to the discovery of Wilfrido Nolledo, Jesus T. Peralta, and Estrella
Alfon.
Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
Is a teacher and theater artist whose 35 years of devoted professorship has produced the most
sterling luminaries in Philippine performing arts today: Behn Cervantes, Celia Diaz-Laurel, Joy
Virata, Joonee Gamboa, etc.
His Contributions:
-His plays include Half an Hour in a Convent, Wanted: A Chaperon, Forever, Condemned,
Perhaps, In Unity, Deep in My Heart, Three Rats, Our Strange Ways, The Forsaken House,
Frustrations.

VISUAL ARTS
Benedicto R. Cabrera
Bencab started his career in the mid-sixties as a lyrical expressionist. His solitary figures of
scavengers emerging from a dark landscape were piercing stabs at the social conscience of a
people long inured to poverty and dereliction.
His Contributions:
-Madonna with Objects, 1991, Studies of Sabel, dyptych, 1991, People Waiting, 1989, The
Indifference, 1988, Waiting for the Monsoon, 1986.
Arturo Luz
Is a painter, sculptor, and designer for more than 40 years, created masterpieces that exemplify
an ideal of sublime austerity in expression and form. Luz produced works that elevated Filipino
aesthetic vision to new heights of sophisticated simplicity.
His Contributions:
-Bagong Taon, Vendador de Flores, Skipping Rope, Candle Vendors, Procession, Self-Portrait,
Night Glows,Grand Finale, Cities of the Past, Imaginary Landscapes. His mural painting Black
and White is displayed in the lobby of the CCP’s Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little
Theater).