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Levi Celerio
Levi Celerio (April 30, 1910 - April 2, 2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist who was born in Manila, Philippines. Celerio was a prolific song-writer, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps best-known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1997, he was named National Artist of the Philippines for Music.
His more popular love songs include: Saan Ka Man Naroroon?, Kahit Konting Pagtingin, Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal, Kapag Puso'y Sinugatan, and Ikaw, O Maliwanag na Buwan, Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak, Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, Bagong Pagsilang, and Sapagkat Kami'y Tao Lamang, while his folk songs include Ang Pipit, Tinikling, Tunay na Tunay, Itik-Itik, Waray-Waray, Pitong Gatang, Ako ay May Singsing, Alibangbang, Alembong, Galawgaw, Caprichosa, Ang Tapis ni Inday, Dungawin Mo Hirang, Umaga na Neneng, Ikaw Kasi, and Basta't Mahal Kita. Celerio also wrote nationalistic songs such as Ang Bagong Lipunan, Lupang Pangarap, and Tinig ng Bayan.
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco (July 24, 1917 - July 15, 2005) was a Filipino national artist in creative dance. She could play the piano, draw, design scenery and costumes, sculpt, act, direct, dance and choreograph. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics. She died on July 15 2005 of "cardiac arrest secondary to cerebro-vascular accident" at the age of 87.
Accomplishments
In 1939, Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was the only dancer sent on the first cultural mission to Japan, at the age of 19. She produced Circling the Globe (1939) and Dance Panorama in the same year. She created The Elements in 1940, the first ballet choreographed by a Filipino to commissioned music. She also created Sports during the same year, featuring cheerleaders, a tennis match and a basketball game. The first Philippine folkloric ballet, Trend: Return to the Native, was choreographed by Goquingco in 1941. After the Second World War, she organized the Philippine Ballet and brought the famous Filipino novel, Noli Me Tangere, to life. The Noli Dance Suite consisted of several dances. Maria Clara and the Leper, Salome and Elias, Sisa, Asalto for Maria Clara and The Gossips are some of the dances found in the Noli Dance Suite. Leonor Orosa-Goquingco also danced during her early years. She danced at the American Museum of Natural History, Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium, The International House and Rockefeller Plaza, just to name a few. She appeared in War Dance and Planting Rice. Other works she choreographed were Circling the Globe, Dance Panorama, Current events, Vinta!, Morolandia, Festival in Maguindanao, Eons Ago: The Creation, Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend, and Lore in Dance, Miner's Song, The Bird and the Planters, Tribal, "Ang Antipos" (The Flagellant), "Salubong," "Pabasa" (Reading of the Pasyon) and Easter Sunday Fiesta.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleón Isabelo Veloso-Abueva (born January 26, 1930), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.
Awards
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First Prize, Sculptural Exhibition by the Art Association of the Philippines (1951) First Prize in the Fifth Annual Art Exhibition (1952) First Prize and Special Award on the Fourth Sculptural Exhibition (1952) Awardee, "The Unknown Political Prisoner" in the International Sculpture Competition by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1953) First Prize and Special Award, Kaganapan (Marble), in the Semi-Annual Art Exhibition by the Art Association of the Philippines (1953) First Prize, "Kiss of Judas" (Wood) in the Religious Art Exhibition in Detroit, Michigan, USA (1955) Purchase Prize, "Water Buffalo" (Marble), in the Annual Show, at St. Louis, Missouri, USA (1956) First Prize, "Figure" (Wood) in the Annual Show of the Art Association of the Philippines (1957) Most Outstanding Alumnus of the School of Fine Arts, U.P. Golden Jubilee (1958) Republic Award for Sculpture (1959) Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) Awardee in Sculpture (1959) Winner, U.P. Gateway Design Competition (1962) Winner, Cultural Heritage Award (1966) ASEAN Awards for Visual Arts in Bangkok (1987) Fourth ASEAN Achievement Award for Visual Arts in Singapore (July 1995).
Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981) was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator. Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris by the French government. Manansala's canvases were described as masterpieces that brought the cultures of the barrio and the city together. His Madonna of the Slums is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city. In his Jeepneys, Manansala combined the elements of provincial folk culture with the congestion issues of the city.
Works
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Madonna of the Slums Jeepneys Kalabaw (Carabao), oil on canvas, 28.5 inches x 38 inches, 1965 Murals "Stations of the cross " in the Church of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice Bangkusay Seascape. 1940. Oil on canvas. 14 x 18 inches. Pila Pila sa Bigas (Left and Right). 1980. Oil on canvas. 51 x 84 inches.
Néstor Vicente Madali González (September 8, 1915-November 28, 1999) was a Filipino writer.
Works
The works bego have been published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian language.
Novels
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The Winds of April (1941) A Season of Grace (1956) The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
Short fiction
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A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classics, 1992 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947
IV-Benevolence
Levi Celerio
Levi Celerio (April 30, 1910 - April 2, 2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist who was born in Manila, Philippines. Celerio was a prolific song-writer, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps best-known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1997, he was named National Artist of the Philippines for Music.
His more popular love songs include: Saan Ka Man Naroroon?, Kahit Konting Pagtingin, Gaano Ko Ikaw Kamahal, Kapag Puso'y Sinugatan, and Ikaw, O Maliwanag na Buwan, Dahil Sa Isang Bulaklak, Sa Ugoy ng Duyan, Bagong Pagsilang, and Sapagkat Kami'y Tao Lamang, while his folk songs include Ang Pipit, Tinikling, Tunay na Tunay, Itik-Itik, Waray-Waray, Pitong Gatang, Ako ay May Singsing, Alibangbang, Alembong, Galawgaw, Caprichosa, Ang Tapis ni Inday, Dungawin Mo Hirang, Umaga na Neneng, Ikaw Kasi, and Basta't Mahal Kita. Celerio also wrote nationalistic songs such as Ang Bagong Lipunan, Lupang Pangarap, and Tinig ng Bayan.
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco (July 24, 1917 - July 15, 2005) was a Filipino national artist in creative dance. She could play the piano, draw, design scenery and costumes, sculpt, act, direct, dance and choreograph. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics. She died on July 15 2005 of "cardiac arrest secondary to cerebro-vascular accident" at the age of 87.
Accomplishments
In 1939, Leonor Orosa-Goquingco was the only dancer sent on the first cultural mission to Japan, at the age of 19. She produced Circling the Globe (1939) and Dance Panorama in the same year. She created The Elements in 1940, the first ballet choreographed by a Filipino to commissioned music. She also created Sports during the same year, featuring cheerleaders, a tennis match and a basketball game. The first Philippine folkloric ballet, Trend: Return to the Native, was choreographed by Goquingco in 1941. After the Second World War, she organized the Philippine Ballet and brought the famous Filipino novel, Noli Me Tangere, to life. The Noli Dance Suite consisted of several dances. Maria Clara and the Leper, Salome and Elias, Sisa, Asalto for Maria Clara and The Gossips are some of the dances found in the Noli Dance Suite. Leonor Orosa-Goquingco also danced during her early years. She danced at the American Museum of Natural History, Theresa Kaufmann Auditorium, The International House and Rockefeller Plaza, just to name a few. She appeared in War Dance and Planting Rice. Other works she choreographed were Circling the Globe, Dance Panorama, Current events, Vinta!, Morolandia, Festival in Maguindanao, Eons Ago: The Creation, Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend, and Lore in Dance, Miner's Song, The Bird and the Planters, Tribal, "Ang Antipos" (The Flagellant), "Salubong," "Pabasa" (Reading of the Pasyon) and Easter Sunday Fiesta.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleón Isabelo Veloso-Abueva (born January 26, 1930), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the only Boholano given the distinction as National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.
Awards
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First Prize, Sculptural Exhibition by the Art Association of the Philippines (1951) First Prize in the Fifth Annual Art Exhibition (1952) First Prize and Special Award on the Fourth Sculptural Exhibition (1952) Awardee, "The Unknown Political Prisoner" in the International Sculpture Competition by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1953) First Prize and Special Award, Kaganapan (Marble), in the Semi-Annual Art Exhibition by the Art Association of the Philippines (1953) First Prize, "Kiss of Judas" (Wood) in the Religious Art Exhibition in Detroit, Michigan, USA (1955) Purchase Prize, "Water Buffalo" (Marble), in the Annual Show, at St. Louis, Missouri, USA (1956) First Prize, "Figure" (Wood) in the Annual Show of the Art Association of the Philippines (1957) Most Outstanding Alumnus of the School of Fine Arts, U.P. Golden Jubilee (1958) Republic Award for Sculpture (1959) Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) Awardee in Sculpture (1959) Winner, U.P. Gateway Design Competition (1962) Winner, Cultural Heritage Award (1966) ASEAN Awards for Visual Arts in Bangkok (1987) Fourth ASEAN Achievement Award for Visual Arts in Singapore (July 1995).
Vicente Silva Manansala (January 22, 1910 - August 22, 1981) was a Philippine cubist painter and illustrator. Manansala was born in Macabebe, Pampanga. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the U.P. School of Fine Arts. In 1949, Manansala received a six-month grant by UNESCO to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Banff and Montreal, Canada. In 1950, he received a nine-month scholarship to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris by the French government. Manansala's canvases were described as masterpieces that brought the cultures of the barrio and the city together. His Madonna of the Slums is a portrayal of a mother and child from the countryside who became urban shanty residents once in the city. In his Jeepneys, Manansala combined the elements of provincial folk culture with the congestion issues of the city.
Works
y y y y y y
Madonna of the Slums Jeepneys Kalabaw (Carabao), oil on canvas, 28.5 inches x 38 inches, 1965 Murals "Stations of the cross " in the Church of the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice Bangkusay Seascape. 1940. Oil on canvas. 14 x 18 inches. Pila Pila sa Bigas (Left and Right). 1980. Oil on canvas. 51 x 84 inches.
Néstor Vicente Madali González (September 8, 1915-November 28, 1999) was a Filipino writer.
Works
The works bego have been published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian language.
Novels
y y y
The Winds of April (1941) A Season of Grace (1956) The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
Short fiction
y y y y y y y
A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classics, 1992 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947
