LUCRECIA ROCES

KASILAG
“FIRST LADY OF PHILIPPINE MUSIC”
NATIONAL ARTIST IN MUSIC IN 1989
“TITA KING”

• BORN : August 31 , 1918

-San Fernando, La Union,
Philippines
-Third children of Mr.
Marcial Kasilag Sr.- a civil
engineer and Asuncion
Roces Ganacial – a
violinist and a violin
teacher.She’s also
Lucrecia”s first
SOLFEGGIO teacher.
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• An educator, public piece “Felix

composer, performing Mendelssohn’s May
artist, administrator and Breeze” at a student
cultural entrepreneur. recital when she was 10
• Her piano teachers years old.
were Doña Concha
Cuervo – a strict
spanish woman and
Doña Pura Villanueva –
during which time she
performed the her first
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• She grew up in Paco, College in Malate,

Manila. Manila.
• 1930 - Paco Elementary • 1939- Graduated with
School-valedictorian a Music Teacher’s
• 1933 – Philippine Diploma, Major in Piano
Women’s University where she was a studet
(H.S.)-valedictorian. of Sister Baptista Battig.
• 1936 – (College)- Cum • During World War II –
Laude Bachelor of Arts. she took up
• She also studied music composition.
at St. Scholastica’s • December 1,1945
performed her own
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compositions in a concert
at Philippine Women’s
University.
• 1946-1947 Kasilag taught
at the UP’s Conservatory
of Music.
-she also worked as a
secretary-registar at
Philippine Women’s
University.
- also studied theory with
Allen I. McHose called East
-West Flavour and
composition with Wayne
Brown.
• 1950 – completed her
graduate studies at the
Eastman School of Music
in Rochester, New York
under a Fulbright Travel
Grant.
• 1953- became a dean of
the PWU College of Music
and Fine Arts
• 1957- she established the
Bayanihan Folk Art
Center to research
Philippine music.
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• She made Bayanihan • 1977- retired from her

Philippine Dance
Company – the primary
artistic and cultural
ensemble of the country.
• She was also a former
president of the Cultural • During the Marcos years –
Center of the Philippines,
head of the Asian
Composer League and
Chairperson of
the Philippine Society for
Music Education
position as the Dean and
she was honored Dean
Emiratus of PWU College
of Music and Fine Arts.
Kasilag was very much
involved with the first
Lady Imelda Marcos’
Cultural Center of the
Philippines.
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• under the term of President Corazon Aquino – she

served three years as a special consultant of Office
of the President.
• She died at the age of 89, August 16, 2008, due to
pneumonia.
FAMOUS COMPOSTIONS
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• has composed more • Love Songs

than 250 works • Legend of Sarimanok
covering most genres • Ang Pamana
includingorchestra,
chamber, organ, • Philippine Scenes
piano, vocal, sacred, • Her Son
operetta, • Jose
dance,theatre, • Sisa
electronic and
incidental music • Awit ng mga Awit
Psalm
• Fantaise on a 4-Note
Theme
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• “The Message,” for • drama which was

voice firstperformed at the
• “Love Songs,” a song inaugurationof
cycle for theCCP in 1969
• soprano and piano
• “Paru-paroat Uod”
from JoseRizal’s
“PamanangLahi”
• also arranged for duet,
or forvoice and string
quartet, and for
“Dularawan,” a song-
dance