•FILIPINA MUSIC COMPOSER

Lucrecia R.Kasilag
 PROFILE OF THE ARTIST
• Lucrecia R. Kasilag was born on the 31st of
August, 1918 in San Fernando, La Union.
• She is the third of six children of
Marcial Kasilag Sr., a government engineer,
and Asuncion Roces, a music
teacher, Lucrecia's first musical influence. ... At
an early age, Lucrecia learnt to play the guitar.
 NOTABLE WORKS
• Works for Stage
• Dularawan: Salakot na Ginto (Image Play: The
Golden Salakot) (1969)
• Her Son, Jose, operatorio (1977)
• The Spiritual Canticle, operatorio (1991)
• Filiasiana, choral dance kaleidoscope (1964)
• Sisa, ballet (1976)
• Why Flowers Bloom in May, opera (2008)
 NOTABLE WORKS
• Concertos
• Violin Concerto no. 1 (1983)
• Violin Concerto no. 2 (1994)
• Divertissement for Piano and Orchestra (1978)

• Choral music
• Misang Pilipino (Filipino mass) (1966)
• De Profundis (1977)
• Benedictus, cantata (1990)
• Ode to the President (1995)
 NOTABLE WORKS
• Orchestral works
• Ang Pamana (The Heritage) (1966)
• The Legend of Sarimanok (1963)
• In the Beginning (1988)
• Centennial Tribute to Filipino Womanhood,
Symphonic cycle (1998)
 NOTABLE WORKS
• Chamber and solo music
• Derivations I-V, for piano (1961, 1963, 1966, 1969,
1982)
• Toccata, for Percussion and Winds (1958)
• Dialogue for Western Flutes and Pinoy Flutes (1996)
• Prelude Etnika and Toccata, for guitar (1996)
• Sonata Orientale, for piano (1961)
• Scherzino, for piano (1980)
• Rondeau, for piano (1981)
• Elegy on Mt. Pinatubo, for piano (1992)
• Serendipity, for piano (1994)
 NOTABLE WORKS
• Music for Indigenous instruments
• Improvisations no. 2, for
Muslim gamelan and tipangklong (1970)
• Ang Apoy ng mga Hayop (The Fire of Animals),
muscal tale (1986)
 FIELD OF THE ARTIST
Lucrecria R. Kasilag was born on August 31, in
San Fernando, La Union. Music was
introduced to her at an early age by her
mother, Asuncion Roces, a music teacher. She
learned to play the bandurria and guitar at an
early age. Every weekend, she and all five of
her siblings performed as the “Kasilag
Rondalla” before their mother.
 FIELD OF THE ARTIST
• She excelled in academics as well, graduating valedictorian at Paco
Elementary School and the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) High
School. She obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in English, at the PWU, cum
laude.
• At an early age, Lucrecia learnt to play the guitar. She graduated
valedictorian from the Paco Elementary School and from the Philippine
Women’s University High School. She finished her Bachelor of Arts degree
in English at the Philippine Women’s University (PWU), after which she
took piano lessons from Concha Cuervo, and later, Pura Lacson Villanueva.
She obtained her Music Teacher’s degree from St. Scholastica’s College of
Music in 1939. And she was sent on an Asian tour by impresario Alfredo
Lozano. She finished her Bachelor of Music degree at the PWU. She
obtained her Master of Music degree, major in theory and minor in
composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester in
New York. She was conferred honorary doctorate degrees by the Centro
Escolar University, the Philippine Women’s University and the St. John
University, New York in 1981.
 FIELD OF THE ARTIST
• Lucrecia Kasilag taught at various colleges such as the St.
Scholastica’s College, Assumption College and the University of the
Philippines Conservatory of Music. She also did pioneering research
in ethnic culture and gained world-wide recognition as the Director
of the Bayanihan Philippines Dance Company. She was Dean of the
PWU College of Music and Fine Arts. She served as Artistic Director
and as president of the Cultural Centre of the Philippines from 1969
until her retirement in 1986. She held so many other posts in many
different organizations. She held key positions in national and
international music organizations and has been recipient of
different grants. In 1971, Lucrecia Kasilag was designated as a
Colombo music expert to advise the University of Singapore on the
setting up of its music department. She has written several articles
and essays on various aspects of humanities and research in Asian
music.
 FIELD OF THE ARTIST
• Lucrecia Kasilag began composing during World War II. Her
over two hundred and fifty compositions range from folk
song arrangements, art songs, solo instruments pieces,
chamber and orchestral works. She has done significant
pioneering work in combining the resources of occidental
and oriental instruments in East and West compositions.
• In 1979, Kubing Records recorded some of her works such
as “Toccata for Percussion and Winds” (1958),
“Divertissement for Piano and Orchestra” (1960), “Legend
of Sarimanok” (1963), “Filiasiana”, a choral dance
kaleidoscope (1964), “Dularawan” (Drama-Tableau) for
indigenous instruments and mixed chorus (1969), “Her Son,
Jose”, an operator (1976) and “Sisa”, ballet music (1976).
INSPIRATION OF LUCRECIA R. KASILAG
• Inspiration from Dr. Antonio Molina
•
• Since Kasilag had a deep interest in literature and music, she pioneered
the Philippine Literary Musical Society (or Philimus) with her close friends
who shared the same interests. She asked the well-known composer and
cellist Dr. Antonio J. Molina to be Philimus’s adviser, who gladly took the
task. For Molina, organize musical and literary groups was his life mission.
•
• Many of Molina’s compositions for voice, piano, and chamber music were
inspired by his ardent passion for Western an Philippine literature,
including the poetry of Jose Garcia Villa and Rafael Zulueta de Costa. Such
an influence was Molina to Kasilag that under his guidance, her first
composition was a tone poem in A flat major, April Morning, set to the
poem of its namesake by Angela Manalang-Gloria
 IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE
• I am motivated because, Lucrecio R. Kasilag is
very dedicated in her works and she is very
smart in music. She don’t stop persuing her
dreams until she will reach her dreams. This is
the impact in my life, is to “don’t stop until
you will reach your dreams”.