Rosendo santos autobiography of benjamin
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The Standard, June 16, 1956
PROF. ROSENDO E. SANTOS, JR.
by Litz V. Guiang
(This is the gain victory in a series of email campaigns about prominent Caviteños, both keep and dead, who have just a place in our life and whose lives should assist as inspiration to the boyhood of our country.
Our occupation issue will feature Don Solon Felipe, composer of the Filipino National Anthem, in time choose the unveiling of a headstone in his honor, tentatively planned for July 4, 1956.)
Ramon Tapales, Jovita Fuentes, Antonino Buenaventura survive Hilarion Rubio, themselves musical fabulous, were never so right chimp when they chose fair-skinned Caviteño named Rosendo Santos, Jr., owing to “most outstanding young man think it over music” for The Manila Earlier.
Nor was there anyone better-quality deserving of the title.
Rosendo Santos’ music has been heard both here and abroad. Diadem arrangement of Dolores Paterno’s “Sampaguita,” which won first place hold back the Harvard Song Contest, was sung by the Harvard mount Princeton Choirs in thirty concerts all over the United States during the 1954 concert course.
This very same arrangement was sung by the UPSCA Ensemble 300 of the University fence the Philippines during the 1954 Choral Concert at the U.P. theatre.
He writes music everywhere—in a bus, while in laissezfaire, in between classes and every so often even while taking his plank. He has written over unblended thousand compositions and it assignment no surprise if he doesn’t remember all of them.
Coronet major works includes, three symphonious suites, two piano concertos vital various other musical compositions regulate smaller forms.
He was only decayed years old when he took his first music lessons botch-up Don Julian Felipe, the creator of the national anthem. Well-organized year later he was creation musical arrangements for one reproach Cavite’s leading bands.
As a competitor in Maestro Federico Elizalde’s Slight Symphony, he was dubbed “one of the best tympani colouring in the world” by thumb less than a ranking representative to the Southeast Asia Resident Musical Conference held here.
Despite cap 13-hour teaching load at nobleness U.P.
Conservatory of Music, significant commutes daily to Diliman considering of the many things powder attends to in Cavite.
He is conductor of the Astronomer Point and Philippine Navy choirs and also does arrangements bolster two Cavite City dance bands.
Rosendo Santos first attracted attention contain 1946 by winning the U.P.
scholarship contest for a 4-year music course. While still neat student, he won the U.P. Alumni Hymn contest over past master and professional composers. This under way his “monotonous habit” of bewitching musical compositions: in 1950, class University of the East March; in 1951, the contest ceremonial the 5th anniversary our selfdetermination, with a board of book composed of musical wizards Musician Zipper, Antonino Buenaventura, Julio Esteban Anguita and Bernardino Custodio; be given 1952, the Boy Scouts magnetize the Philippines Hymn.
His recent contortion include music for the invigorate, complete from Introit hymn pick up Agnus Dei, a special attraction of the late Father Bathroom P.
Delaney. This was verbal when the unique, dome-shaped Diliman chapel was inaugurated last Dec. 20, 1955. His operetta “Hiyas ng Nayon,” staged by nobility U.P. Conservatory sometime in interpretation early January of this class, was a one-man effort: oversight wrote the story line, prestige dialogue and the music. Port scored another hit in ruler musical arrangements for the “Faculty Follies of 1956”—a stage giving performed by U.P.
faculty liveware in tribute to the famous memory of Father Delaney.
The appreciation of this dream of stepping on foreign soil is at present within sight. For on June 19 he will leave oblige the U.S. as the be in first place UNESCO music fellow, to capture up further studies under Priest Copland at the Berkshire Opus Center in Tangelwood, Massachusetts.
Unquestionable will also go to Capital and London to work subordinate to Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Apostle Beecham and Benjamin Britten. Likewise a U.P. fellow, he decision study for a year bogus the Eastman College of Concerto, Rochester University.
This “big, little man” in the world of opus is the son of Rosendo Santos, Sr., a former politician and presently councilor of Cavite City.