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A special 2-day meeting of Asian performing artists on theories of performance, covering styles, theoretical-systemic framework, and intercultural relations of Asian  musical repertoires was held February 27-28, 2007.  The musical traditions represented included Okinawan music from Ryukyu Kingdom, saung gauk music and sandaya from Myanmar, Toba Batak from North Sumatra, Persian music,  Thai classical singing, music from North and Northeast Thailand, Chinese music, Kulintang music from Southern Philippines, and Philippine Jazz. Reactors represented not only musicology, but also sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. Concerts were held in the evening, as well as a culminating reception and closing on February 28.

Upon the inscription of the Jose Maceda collection in the Memory of the World Register on June 15, 2007, the UP College of Music under Dean Ramon Acoymo, organized a formal event in the morning of September 26, 2007 that unveiled the permanent marker replicating the official inscription certificate of UNESCO.  It also opened the week-long 91^st anniversary celebration of the UP College of Music.  The program was attended by Commissioner Carmen Padilla of the UNESCO National Commission, the UP Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, Mr. Johnny Villanueva representing the Maceda family, and members of the Memory of the World Register local chapter.  The program culminated with the performance of Jose Maceda’s “Kubing” conducted by the Executive Director Ramon P. Santos.

The project is a cd production of the TZADIK company headed by John Zorn, with composer Chris Brown of Mills College, as the recording engineer and general musical coordinator.  The album is the second production on the music of Jose Maceda containing three pieces: “Sujeichon”, “Music for Two Pianos and Four Percussion”, and “Strata”.  The first two were recorded in Mills College and the third (for 40 performers) was recorded in the UP Theater, with Ramon Santos conducting, under the auspices of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology. 

Symposium on the Theory of Performance in the Musics of Asia

ADING: Unveiling of the marker for UNESCO Memories of the World Registry

Strata Recording

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A 3-day intensive conference and round-table discussion on Music Research Centers in the Southeast and the East Asian region, in 13-15 October 2008.  spearheaded by the UP Center for Ethnomusicology, the repository of the Jose Maceda collection that has recently been inscribed in the Memory of the World Register of the UNESCO.  The forum which aimed at initiating an institutional and pro-active dialogue between music research centers and similar institutions in the East Asia and Southeast Asian regions was attended by experts from Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and various esteemed institutions in the Philippines. This event is part of the Centennial Celebration of the University of the Philippines. Grants to assist implementation of the project were received from the U.P. College of Music, U.P. Office of the President, U.P. Diliman Office of the Chancellor, U.P. Asian Institute of Tourism, MUSAR Foundation, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts,  Japan Foundation-Manila, Tunugan Foundation, U.P. Vargas Museum and the Philippine Information Agency.

Forum on Music Research Centers in Asia