EACH MORNING WE ARE

BORN AGAIN.
WHAT WE DO TODAY IS
WHAT MATTERS MOST
MESSAGE:
SUN IS OUR LIFE.AND IT IS THE REASON WHY OUR
WORLD IS BRIGHT.WITHOUT SUN OUR WORLD BECOME
FULL OF DARKNESS AND SINS.

Antonio Buenaventura also known as Colonel Antonio Buenaventura, was born

on 4 May 1904 in Baliuag, Bulacan. He inherited his interest in music and military from his
father, Lucino Buenaventura. He was born to a family of musicians and actively involved in
the band.
He had formal music lessons in Solfeggio when he was in grade IV. He learned how the band
instruments sounded through observation and experimentation. He organized a seven piece

school orchestra, a children's group in his school.In 1922, he composed two pieces, a march
and a foxtrot entitled "Only You". He was admitted as clarinetist to the University of the
Philippines Symphony Orchestra. He was a student in composition and conducting and the
captain of cadet corps of the university when he organized the first student orchestra,
the UP Junior Orchestra.After he completed his Teacher's Diploma in Composition and
Conducting in the University of the Philippines (UP), he was appointed faculty member of the
Conservatory of Music. He was the UP President's Committee on Folksongs and Dances when
he composed the "Pandanggo sa Ilaw", a dance accompaniment.In 1937, he was
commissioned to the military service where he became a music instructor and band
conductor at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City in 1939. He was also
appointed as the assistant conductor of the Manila Symphony Orchestra. He was
designated the 'Municipal Symphony Orchestra's co-conductor and toured in Hongkong,
Japan, Guam, and Hawaii in 1948. He also organized the University of the East Student
Orchestra.In his compositions, he tries to capture the Filipino spirit as a whole. He also
composed short piano pieces to full length ballets.

Hilarion F. Rubio 's name was closely identified with the position of orchestra

conductor for opera presentations and with ballet and dance recitals. He also did music for
movies.He was born in Bacoor, Cavite on 21 October 1902. He got interested in music from
his uncle who was playing in Bacoor Band . His first music lessons was with Father Amando
Buencamino. Buencamino taught him the solfeggio and the musical intruments. He was
accepted as a member of the Bacoor Band as a clarinest at the age of eight. At about this
time, he made his first composition "Unang Katas" which was for the band. During his high
school years at the North High School (now Arellano High School), he participated at various
movie-house bands in orchestras. He was also a member of Lyric Theater Orchestra, Trozo
Band in Benavides Street, and the Band Moderna in Tondo. By the time he graduated high
school, he founded the Anak Zapote Band. He was a bandleader and captain of ROTC Band
of UP Conservatory of Music until the time he graduated in 1933. He also played the tympani
and at times the violin for the UP Junior Symphony Orchestra.He was an opera conductor at
the Manila Music School and choral conductor of the "Islanders" and was appointed as an
instructor at UP in 1936. At one time, he was also a faculty member at the Buencamino
Music Academy, La Concordia College, College of the Holy Spirit, Santa Isabel
College, Laperal Music Academy, Manila Music School, St. Theresa's College, and theValencia
Academy of Music. He also became the director of the Centro University of Music in 19441945.During the war years, when he coud not teach in school, he continued teaching
through private lessons, composed, arranged, and conducted various bands, and choruses.
After the war, he taught and conducted the Municipal Symphony Orchestra. He also reorganized the UNIDA Church Choir. He became the vice-president of the PASAMBAP or
National Band Association. He was also a charter member of the League of Filipino
Composers. Interanationally, he is also a member of the National Band Conductors'
Association in Washington D.C., USA.

Antonio J. Molina (1894-1980) was a National Artist of the Philippines. A musical great,
he was considered the peer of two other great Filipino musicians Nicanor
Abelardo and Francisco Santiago. His talent was prodigious: he was the first violincellist of
pre-war times, a composer, conductor, pedagogue, and music administrator.
Molina was born into a musical family Quiapo, Manila on 26 December 1894. His father Juan
Molina was an influential government official who also founded the Molina Orchestra. His
first formal music lessons was violin and solfeggio under Celestino de Vera, then a member
of his father's orchestra.He attended the Escuela Catolica de Nuestra Padre Jesus Nazareno
in Quiapo. He continued high school and college at San Juan De Letran where he obtained
abachelor of arts degree in 1909.Complying with his father's wishes he pursued a Bachelor
of Laws initially at the UST. He transferred in his second year of law studies to the Escuela
de Derecho de Manila, where he finished his studies. He attained a teacher's diploma in
violincello at the UP Conservatory of Music in 1923.

His first composition was "Matinal" in 1912 and it is preserved in an unpublished volume
"Miniaturas", Volume I. He did a professional work, as concert soloist, composer, and
conductor in Hanoi, French Indochina (now North Vietnam). Back in the Philippines, he was
appointed to teach harmony, composition, music history, and violincello at the UP
Conservatory of Music]]. He was also the first Filipino composer who was invited to perform
his works to Malacaang. From being a consultant in music education at the Bureau of Public
Schools, he also became the dean of the Centro Escolar Conservatory of Music. He also
founded the first chamber music group, the CEU String Quartet which was professionally
organized and financed by its music school.
As a conductor, he lead the first performance in the Philippines of Bach's Christmas Oratorio
presented by the combined Knox and Central Church Choirs (1947), as well as the first
performance Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, presented by the Manila Little Theater Group at
the FEU Auditorium (1950). He is also remembered as the conductor of the first televised
choral concert, featuring the Centro Escolar University Conservatory Chorus, over then
DZAQ-TV Channel 3 (1953).
As a composer Molina was credited with over 500 compositions, including:
Hatinggabi, among earliest violin selections
Malikmata, piano
Ana Maria, zarzuela
Misa Antoniana Grand Festival Mass
Ang Batingaw, Kundiman- Kundangan; (chamber music)
Kung sa Iyong Gunita, Pandangguhan; (vocal music)
Amihan, Awit ni Maria Clara
Larawan Nitong Pilipinas, among others.
A true pioneer, he was one of the first composers to incorporate pentatonic scales and
ethnic instruments such as the kulintang, and gabbang in his symphonies.
Molina influenced many prominent Filipino musicians including Lucresia Kasilag and Felipe
Padilla de Leon.
Antonio Molina Married his first wife Pilar Siauingco when he was 23. They had 6 children:
Rosita, holder of a music teacher's diploma in piano; Exequiel, also known as "Lito" a
journalist who was also known as one of the country's best saxophone players; Antonio
Maria, a graduate in composition and choral conducting in the United States, and who,
according to Molina, was a far better musician than his father and Monserrat, who holds a
bachelor's degree in nutrition, but is a pianist.
Molina remarried in 1965. His wife, Carmen Serrano, was a former student of his at Centro
Escolar University. She holds a bachelor in music degree in music education and an AB
degree from the Colegio de Santa Isabel.
He died on 29 January 1980 at age 86 and was honored with a state funeral befitting a
Philippine National Artist.
Awards and Distinctions
Diploma of Honor, Manila Music Lovers Society, 1940
Commemorative medal and diploma, Department of Education, Health and Public Welfare,
1942
Choral Conductor of the Year and Music Researcher of the Year, Music Lovers Society,
1949
Honorary doctor of laws, honoris causa, CEU, 1953
Araw ng Maynila Award in music, 1969
Phi Kappa Phi Award and the UP Alumni Association Professional Award, 1972
Republic Cultural Heritage Award, in 1965 and 1972
National Artist of the Philippines, on 12 June 1973