![]() Even though Magnifico is still a young boy, he never fails on helping his family and his other townspeople. ![]() Knowing Kasilag’s style of composition, it is safe to assume that in Principe Baldovino, she was able to capture the essence of the moro-moro by incorporating indigenous instruments and elements to aid the performance and give the play or scene a more authentic flow.The movie Magnifico is a story about a boy who have an amazing love and faith in his family even though they faces so many problems like when his brother Miong loses his scholarship in Manila, when his grandmother was diagnosed to have a terminal illness and his younger sister, Helen, who have a cerebral palsy. Because of this, she became known as the “First Lade of Philippine Music”. This is seen in her prize-winning “Toccata for Percussions and Winds, Divertissement and Concertante”. Tita King is known for her utilization of Filipino folk songs to set the mood of her compositions and also included indigenous elements to the main melodies to counter her Western influenced notes. but unfortunately most of her works are unpublished, thus her only a few of her works have gained recognition by the public today. She has composed more than 250 works, especially for orchestra, chamber, organ, piano, vocal, sacred, operetta, dance theater, etc. Kasilag is known for her classical and romantic style of compositions with 20th century techniques. Principe Baldovino was taken from the province of Palawan wherein there was a confrontation between the Christians and the Muslims which was told in song and dance. “Taking the essence, respecting its psychology, the soul of the story retaining its spirit… thus capturing the flavor of the traditional moro-moro”. In an interview he had, he explained that he gave Principe Baldovino Shakespearean externals. In other words his goal was to revive old moro-moro plays and fuse it with contemporary ideals without masking the soul and spirit of the original play. Tinio’s objective was to dig and rediscover repertory of the past tradition that had been lost and forgotten. Rolando Tinio is a well-respected National Artist for literature and theater. At the Cultural Center of the Philippines Little Theater Inauguration. Unfortunately, there has been no recorded sources of the original playwright by Fernandez herself, but rather, Rolando Tinio reinterpreted and directed Principe Baldovino, which played for the duration exclusively on July - August of 1971. She was one among the one hundred Filipinos who contributed to molding the arts in the Philippines in the last century.Īmong Fernandez’s famous writings is of the playwright moro-moro Principe Baldovino, which translates to Prince Baldwin in English. For this reason, she had received several awards, most especially the Achievement Award from the National Research Council in 1997 and the CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999. Lastly, she was the co-founder of the Babylon Theater Group with Nicanor Tiongson and the Cultural Research Association of the Philippines, among others. Furthermore, she was a prolific writer of essays, novels, video scripts, columnist and even contributed to the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Fernandez was active in the field of research in literature, culture, theater and culinary history of the Philippines. ![]() She was born on Octoin Nueva Ecija and she majored in English literature in 1956 and a Ph.D in literature in 1976 from Ateneo de Manila University. This paved the way for aspiring Filipino writers at the time, and one renowned and well respected writer is Doreen Gamboa Fernandez.
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