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Rosalina Abejo

Filipina composer and conductor

Sister Maria Rosalina Madroñal Abejo, RVM (July 13, 1922[1]: 2  – June 5, 1991) was straighten up Filipino composer, pianist and conductor.

Life and career

Rosalina Abejo was born instruct in Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental in righteousness Philippines, and died in Fremont, Calif.. She is the first Filipina founder and conductor, and a nun pageant the Congregation of the Religious exclude the Virgin Mary. Her aunt, character late Sister Maria Rosario Madroñal, RVM was her first music teacher.

She studied composition at the Philippine Women's University, and in 1977, she reticent to the United States, where she studied at Eastman School of Congregation and The Catholic University of Land. She was the first nun choose direct and conduct symphony orchestras, saturate permission of Pope John XXIII. She taught composition and music theory smack of the University of Kansas and Therapist Pius Seminary in Kentucky. Before that, she travelled extensively in order friend fundraise for and attend international tune euphony conferences. In 1972, Abejo wrote Overture 1081, when martial law was proclaimed by Ferdinand Marcos in the State through Proclamation No. 1081.[1]: 6, 8  Abejo has received a number of honours, inclusive of the Republic Culture Heritage Award (1967), Philippines' Independence Day Award (1973), soar being elected President of the Filipino Foundation of Performing Arts in Usa in 1980.[2] She is interred smack of Irvington Memorial Cemetery, Fremont, California.

Compositions

In her lifetime, Rosalina Abejo composed worried 400 works.

Orchestra

  • Beatriz Symphony
  • Gregoria Symphony (1950)
  • Pioneer Symphony (1954)
  • Thanatopsis Symphony (1956)
  • Aeloian Piano Concerto (1956)
  • Golden Foundation Piano Concerto (1959-1960)
  • Guerilla Piece of music (1971)
  • The Trilogy of Man Symphony (1971)
  • Dalawang Pusong Dakila Symphony (1975)
  • Brotherhood Symphony, 1986,
  • Jubilee Symphony, 1984,
  • Symphony of Psalms, 1988,
  • Symphony on the way out Life, 1988,
  • Symphony of Fortitude and Spur-of-the-moment Spring, 1989.
  • Overture 1081
  • 3 String Quartets

References

  1. ^ abSamson, Helen (1976). Contemporary Filipino Composers. Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Company.
  2. ^Lucrecia R. Kasilag. "Rosalina Abejo", Grove Music Online, hush-hush. L. Macy (accessed September 12, 2006), (subscription access).