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Lucrecia R. Kasilag was a Filipino composer, educator, and cultural leader who was designated a National Artist for Music. She was born in 1918 and was influential in developing Filipino music. She composed over 250 works, researched ethnic music, and helped establish music departments. As director of the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company and Cultural Centre of the Philippines, she promoted appreciation of Filipino culture. She received many honors for her contributions to music and arts in the Philippines.

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Lucrecia R. Kasilag was a Filipino composer, educator, and cultural leader who was designated a National Artist for Music. She was born in 1918 and was influential in developing Filipino music. She composed over 250 works, researched ethnic music, and helped establish music departments. As director of the Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company and Cultural Centre of the Philippines, she promoted appreciation of Filipino culture. She received many honors for her contributions to music and arts in the Philippines.

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NATIONAL ARTIST FOR MUSIC: LUCRECIA R.


KASILAG

Lucrecia R. Kasilag or Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born on the 31st of


August, 1918 in San Fernando, La Union and passed away on the 16th of August,
2008 at the age of 90. 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. After Kasilag’s birth, the family moved to Albay and then to
Manila.
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.
AWARDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
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.
Lucrecia Kasilag began composing during World War II. She is an educator,
composer, performing artist, administrator and cultural entrepreneur of national and
international caliber, had involved herself wholly in sharpening the Filipino
audience’s appreciation of music. 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). “Tita King”, as
she was fondly called, worked closely as music director with colleagues Lucresia
Reyes-Urtula, Isabel Santos, Jose Lardizabal and Dr. Leticia P. de Guzman and made
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company one of the premier artistic and cultural
groups in the country.

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