31/08/2024
Today is the 107th birth anniversary of National Artist Lucrecia R. Kasilag.
Lucrecia R. Kasilag, an educator, composer, performing artist, administrator and cultural entrepreneur of national and international caliber, had involved herself wholly in sharpening the Filipino audienceโs appreciation of music. Kasilagโs pioneering task to discover the Filipino roots through ethnic music and fusing it with Western influences has led many Filipino composers to experiment with such an approach.
She dared to incorporate indigenous Filipino instruments in orchestral productions, such as the prize-winning โToccata for Percussions and Winds, Divertissement and Concertante,โ and the scores of the Filiasiana, Misang Pilipino, and De Profundis. โTita Kingโ, as she was fondly called, worked closely as music director with colleagues Lucresia Reyes-Urtula, Isabel Santos, Jose Lardizabal and Dr. Leticia P. de Guzman and made Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company one of the premier artistic and cultural groups in the country.
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