1991 – Pasasalamat

CCP
the national coordinating center for the arts

Presents

PASASALAMAT 1991

January 15, 1991 7:30 p.m.
Tanghalang Aurelio V. Tolentino
(CCP Little Theater)

I. PROGRAM NATIONAL ANTHEM
II. OPENING REMARKS Ma. Teresa Escoda Roxas
III.MINUET AND DANCE OF THE BLESSED
SPIRIT CANTABILE ET PRESTO NAHAN Gluck Enesco Cuenco

Antonio Ruiz Maigue, flutist
Della Gamboa Besa, pianist

IV. PEPE Written by Malou Jacob
Directed by Nonon Padilla
Lighting Design by Milo Sarmiento

One of the three historical monologues in Tanghalang Pilipino’s
“Tonyo, Pepe at Pule”, a monologue on Jose Rizal.

Jose Rizal Ony de Leon
Koro Voie Abanto Lambert de Jesus

TANGHALANG PILIPINO
INTERMISSION
( 10 minutes)

V.
AWIT NI ESTRELLA
from the sarswela Paglipas ng Dilim L. Ignacio & P. Palma

DUWETO
from the sarswela Dalagang Bukid L. Ignacio & H. Ilagan

Noemi Manikan Gomez
Nonie Buencamino
Jojo Malferarri, pianist
TANGHALANG PILIPINO :

VI. PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES
Folk dances of the Kalinga (Pattong), Ifugao (Dinuya), Bagobo (Anito-Baylan, Dugso, Sugod-Uno), and Maranao (Singkil)

RAMON OBUSAN FOLKLORIC GROUP

ANTONIO RUIZ MAIGUE, won a scholarship to study in France after earning his Teacher’s diploma from the University of the Philippines. At the entrance competition at the Conservatoire National de Rueel-Melmaison in Paris, he won the single slot available for the school year, graduating with the degree “Fin d’etude”. The following year he was awarded the diploma of Superior Studies with highest honors (Premir Prix, Medaille D’or). His teachers were Philippe Pierlot, Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre Rampal.

A much sought after performer, he has given concerts all over the Philippines and was recently invited to be principal flutist at the Pacific Music Festival 1990 in Sapporo, Japan.

DELLA GAMBOA BESA, pianist, earned a B.A. in Mathematics before going into music. Her teachers include Pilar B. Larracas, Ben Tupas, Marieta Cruz, Manuel Maramba and Jose Contreras. Together with long-time partner Mary Ann Armovit, she was a French government grantee in piano ensemble.

At one time faculty member and Assistant Dean at the St. Scholastica’s College of Music, she is presently Director for Musical Arts, Cultural Center of the Philippines

TANGHALANG PILIPINO, the resident theater company of the CCP was established in 1987 and has presented twenty-six full productions, three of which excerpts will be presented this evening: Tonyo, Pepe at Pule, a trilogy on the lives of National Heroes Jose Rizal, Antonio Luna and Apolinario Mabini written by Malou Jacob, Rene Villanueva and Paul Dumol; Dalagang Bukid, a sarsuwela by Leon Ignacio and Hermogenes Ilagan; and the company’s season finale Paglipas ng Dilim, another sarsuwela by Leon Ignacio and Precioso Palma, which opens on Fenruary 1 at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino. It stars Noemi Manikan-Gomez, Cynthia Patag, Celeste Legaspi, Nonie Buencamino, Josephine Roces, Lou Veloso, Gigi Duenas and Bodjie Pascua, under the direction of Nonon Padilla.

RAMON OBUSAN FOLKLORIC GROUP, Ramon A. Obusan was introduced to Filipino dance in 1964 as a member of the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company. He continued with the company as a dancer while completing a degree in anthropology at the University of the Philippines. Not only was he then dancing with the company, he was also undertaking research during the many trips he made around the archipelago recording songs, dances and poetry, and collecting tribal costumes and musical instruments

From the wealth of his research and from the artifacts he gathered, he founded his own dance company in 1972, with the aim of preserving and developing authenticity and good theater. The Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group has since toured Japan, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and Europe, and is in constant demand at home to perform for visiting government dignitaries and at festivals, conventions and dance workshops.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines
would like to express its deepest gratitude
to all Sponsors, Patrons and Friends
for their support of the CCP
and Filipino culture.