Edru abraham biography abe

And Edru drank it all in. Edru Abraham plays the white cock while Rey Limcaco portrays the red cock. After college, we lost track of each other for a long while, engrossed as we were in building careers and raising families. But as fatefully, inwe both applied and were accepted to fill newly opened items in General Education at the Department of Humanities in U.

Diliman - Edru to focus on dance and I, on music. The Diliman Campus was in full intellectual ferment at the time. There was an earnest attempt to resituate us, not as colonial subjects of distant European or American lands, but as part of an older, deeper-rooted and wider-ranging Southeast Asian culture that stretched from Southern China to Madagascar.

Apocryphal tales handed down to us from our elders on the faculty emphasized the need to develop more and more curricular offerings in Philippine Arts out of the pitiful single course that they had struggled to put together in the s. Looking back on those times, we realize, with some sense of pride, that bywe had, as a collective, established 26 courses in Philippine Art with Edru developing two of these in Philippine dance and two more in Asian and Western dance.

This meant that folk dancing was the permissible alternative in the school system. My group aims to let the public know about the culture and music of [our] natives and to prove to them that art is not only for experts. For Prof. Abraham, art communicates. And what it communicates is essential not just for a single person but also for a great majority.

Edru abraham biography abe

It leads to the celebration of the existence of [our] tribes, natives and Indigenous peoples. Pedro Abraham takes inspiration from wherever it may come. He believes in giving back to the higher power called Inspiration who made all the works possible. And so, as I listened to my dear friend Edru, formidably Arab-looking in every way, thank the gentle genes of his father for his artistry, I began to imagine the older society and civilization from which he sprang.

In previous conversations, I had told Edru of an unusual visit that my wife and I made to Lebanon in On our way to England for graduate school, we had decided to take the long leisurely route to Europe offered by a round-the-world ticket. We looked at the map and chose what we thought were among the most ancient of cities—Athens, Beirut and Istanbul.

I remember being so captivated by the beauty of Beirut that we decided to stay a little longer and skip Istanbul altogether. The Department of Tourism paging Sec. Mina Gabor should send Kontra-Gapi abroad to stun the world with the richness of our aural textures. People dream of a Filipino musical that willbe hit abroad. We believe that Kontra-Gapi's unique music is the way to get musical-theater audiences aborad excited about Philippine theater Torre, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 19, " But the international popularity of Filipino Musicians is more a tribute to their ability to imitate Western pop than anything else.

Even what is locally known as Original Pilipino Music or OPM is seldom original, being "Pilipino" only in the broadest sense that it is music made by Filipinos. The lyrics might be in Tagalog, but in structure ans style most OPM is often indistinguishable from Western pop. In the new global information society, music has been reducedto product - something to be manufactured, packaged and thrust into the gaping maw of the consumer - like processed cheese or canned sardines.

A songwriter writes a song in Los Angeles or Manila, it doesm't really matter and if it conforms sufficiently to pop conventions, the massive machinery of the recording industry is set in motion. Before you know, the song is blaring out of 30 million radios from Batangas to Sitangkai. Kontra-Gapi offers one alternative to this syndrome.

The medium is the message, and the message is clear: it is high time we broke away from the overwhelming cultural dominance of the West and returned to our roots.