NATIONAL ARTISTS

 Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula
 She was born in June
29, 1929 in Ilolilo
City
 She was named National
Artists for dance in 1988.
Lucrecia Reyes-Urtula, choreographer, dance educator
and researcher,spent almost four decades in the
discovery and study of Philippine folk and ethnic
dances. She applied her findings to project a new
example of an ethnic dance culture that goes beyond
simple preservation and into creative growth.
Singkil, a Bayanihan signature number based on a
Maranao epic poem; Vinta, a dance honoring Filipino
sailing prowess; Tagabili, a tale of tribal conflict;
Pagdiwata, a four-day harvest festival condensed into a
six-minute breath-taking spectacle; Salidsid, a mountain
wedding dance ; Idaw, Banga and Aires de Verbena.
SINGKIL
VINTA
SINGKIL
TAGABILI
PAGDIWATA
Originating from the Tagbanua tribe, this dance is a
festival of thanksgiving to the Gods for their blessings
and healing powers. This ritual celebrates three
goddesses that heal the sick and give the people a
bountiful harvest and hunting expedition.
SALIDSID
 Lucrecia Roces
Kasilag
 Born on August
31,1918 in San
Fernando La Union
 She was proclaimed
national artist for
music in 1989.
 A composer who pioneered modernism in Philippine music,
having made “more than three hundred compositions in a glorious
span of more than five decades” (Hilla, 2004), which helped enrich
the country’s already established cultural heritage for music and
the arts.

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 She made compositions for songs, piano solos, marches, hymns,
chamber music, and orchestra ensembles. A number of her famous
compositions include arrangements of Tagalog folk songs like
“Chitchirit-sit”, “Bahay Kubo” and “Leron,Leron Sinta.

 As a result of her invaluable contributions, she wasconferred the

National Artist Award for Music in 1989, solidifying her position as
aniconic figure who helped propel Philippine music further into
national consciousness.
 Her orchestral music includes Love Songs, Legend of
the Sarimanok, Ang Pamana, Philippine
Scenes, Her Son, Jose, Sisa and chamber music
like Awit ng mga Awit Psalms, Fantaisie on a 4-Note Theme,
and East Meets Jazz Ethnika.
 Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino
Arcellana
 Born on September 6, 1916 In Sta.
Cruz,Manila
 National Artist for Literature in the
year 1990
 Francisco Arcellana, writer, poet, essayist, critic,
journalist, and teacher, is one of the most important
progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in English.

 He pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical

prose-poetic form. For Arcellana, the pride of fiction is
“that it is able to render truth, that is able to present reality”.
 Arcellana’s published books are Selected Stories (1962), Poetry and
Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines
Today (1977), The Francisco Arcellana Sampler(1990).

 Some of his short stories are Frankie, The Man Who Would Be
Poe, Death in a Factory, Lina, A Clown Remembers, Divided by
Two, The Mats, and his poems being The Other Woman, This Being
the Third Poem This Poem is for Mathilda, To Touch You and I
Touched Her, among others.
 Arcellana was a master of words, and a master of
storytelling. His stories had plots intricate with twists and
turns, but it was the way he wrote the stories, the words he
used and how he strung them together, that set them apart
as masterpieces.
THANK YOU