Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Encuentro Filipino: Concerts

Inaugural Concert: A Recital of Filipino Romantic Piano Music

Since her London debut, pianist Sally Pinkas has concertized widely in the USA, Europe, Russia, China, Africa and her native Israel, both as soloist and as half of the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo (with her husband, Evan Hirsch). Pianist-in-residence of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Pinkas is Professor of Music at the College's Music Department, and a faculty member at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pinkas has participated in the Marlboro, Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, and appears regularly in summer festivals in the USA, Italy and France. Her solo discography includes works by Debussy, Fauré, George Rochberg and Christian Wolff on the Centaur, Musica Omnia, Gasparo and Mode labels. A 3-CD recording of Gaubert's Complete Chamber Works for Flute and Piano(with Fenwick Smith) was recently released on Naxos. Upcoming releases include the Fauré Piano Quartets (with the Adaskin Trio) and solo works by Schumann.

Program

• La Julita - Pequeña Walz Lento: Marcelo Adonay (1848-1928)
• La Marieta - Allegro (Tempo di mazurka): Marcelo Adonay
• Kayumangui - Sa Kadalagahan Na Akino, Andantino (Tempo di valse): Francisco Buencamino, Sr. (1883-1952)
• In The Orient (Valsette): Dr. Francisco Santiago (1889-1947)
• Nocturne in E-flat Minor (Moderato cantabile): Dr. Francisco Santiago
• First Nocturne (Moderato cantabile): Prof. Nicanor Abelardo (1893-1934)
• "Camia", based on Tinguian and Tagalog Songs, Poem by Francicso Icasiano (Andante contemplativo): Antonio J. Molina (1894-1980)
• Romance in B-flat Major (Moderato): Lucino T. Sacramento (1908-1984)
• Kapis Souvenirs, Characteristic Dance (Introduction- Habanera): Julio Nakpil (1867 - 1960)
• Harana - Serenade (Moderato, quasi lento): Francisco Buencamino, Sr.
• "Malikmata" (Transfiguration), Poem by R. Zulueta da Costa (Andante misterioso): Antonio J. Molina
• La Bella Filipina (Daciso), Trans. F. Buencamino, Sr.: Ignacio Massaguer (fl. 1860-1890)

Texts

Camia

Poem "To a Camia" by Francisco B. Icasiano (1938), Music by Antonio J. Molina (1942)

Waywardness
In a moment of waywardness, the soft scent of a lone camia flower in a neighbor's garden so filled me with an inordinate desire to pluck and possess what was not mine own. Desisting I poured out all my weakness in these lines as a measure of self-inflicted penance:

To a Camia
I should not hold your whiteness in my hands:
Frail are your petals and they might yield
To my unthinking touch.

I should not even see the loveliness of you:
A curse resides in glances wild, they say,
Or looking long might tempt me overmuch.

I must not press your softness and your charm
Against my tainted lips- they're warm, --
You might then wilt and die; and such
An end is undeserved.

But you will wilt tonight, you must -
And vain regret will force me then declare:
You bloomed but once, and I have failed to touch,
To look at, or to kiss what will never, never be
Again!

Malikmata (Transfiguration)

Poem by R. Zulueta da Costa, Music by Antonio J. Molina (1939)

Now is the godly hour when loving hands
Distil the earth anew. We shall awake
And tear the sunrise from the womb of dawn,
Until the running of our mystic blood
Becomes one with the running of the tide,
One with the white cathedrals of the sky,
One with the wonder of the bursting seed,
One with the splendor of the rising sap,
One with all glorious flow on glorious earth:
Until the running of our blood becomes
One with the whirlings of forgotten suns,
One with the heavings of forsaken seas,
One music with the all that is dear earth;
Until there is no more for armoured life
But, lovingly, to lay down arms before
The earth imperative, transfigured Earth:
Until we find night-breathing pray'r upon
Our twisted lips:
We are commemoration
Of a dead, but resurrected life.

Note: this is the second part of the poem Eroica included in "like the Molave". It is the literary embodiment of ideas and emotions expressed in the music

CHORAL REPERTOIRE - LOBOC CHILDREN'S CHOIR
(Note: the final program will be selected from the list below.)

Loboc Children's Choir, Mrs. Alma Taldo, Music Director

Photo credit: The Loboc Children's Choir, 2008, Photograph by Lutgardo Labad.

I. SONGS OF CHURCH HERITAGE AND WORSHIP
GOZOS A NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMEN
REGINA CAELI
AVE MARIA
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE IÕVE SEEN
GLORIA ALLELUIA
TANGING YAMAN
CANTICORUM JUBILO
LIFT THINE EYES
CANTATE DOMINO
SALVE REGINA
PANIS ANGELICUS
II. SONGS FROM OTHER CULTURES
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL DONNA DONNA
EDELWEISS
CHILDRENÕS RIGHTS/ ONE WORLD
SISTER ACT MEDLEY
Indonesian: SOLERAM
THE JOURNEY
Italian: CONTRAPUNTO BESTIALE
MUSIC OF THE NIGHT
HYMN TO FREEDOM
French: JEAN QUI PLEURE ET JEAN QUI RIT
Chinese: MOLIHUA
III. FILIPINIANA
HAY LING
ROSAS PANDAN
VISAYAN MEDLEY
LARONG PINOY
KALESA
BAYAN KO
NABASAG ANG BANGA
KAMING MAGMAMANI
UGOY NG DUYAN
ANG TATAY KO
TI AYAT MAYSA NGA
UBING
BOL-ANON
AKO AY PILIPINO
FINALE: LIGHT OF A MILLION MORNINGS