Recital II: Tout Gai!

May 26, 2015
UP Diliman
College of Music

Text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Music by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Kukuk hat sich zu Tode gefallen
An einer grünen Weiden,
Kukuk ist todt! Kuckuck ist totd!
Wer soll uns denn den Sommer lang
Die Zeit und Weil vertreiben?

Ei, das soll thun Frau Nachtigall,
Die sitzt auf grünem Zweige;
Die kleine, feine Nachtigall,
Die liebe, süße Nachtigall!
Sie singt und springt, ist allzeit froh,
Wenn andre Vögel schweigen.

Wir warten auf Frau Nachtigall,
Die wohnt im grünen Hage,
Und wenn der Kukuk zu Ende ist,
Dann fängt sie an zu schlagen!

English translation:

The cuckoo has fallen to its death
On a green willow,
The cuckoo is dead! The cuckoo is dead!
Who should then, all summer long,
Help us expel the time?

Oh, that should be Mrs. Nightingale!
She sits on a green branch!
The small, fine nightingale,
The lovely, sweet nightingale!
She sings and springs, is always joyous,
When other birds are silent!

We await Mrs. Nightingale,
Who lives in a green glen,
And when the cuckoo call is at its end,
Then does she begin to sing!


Ablösung im Sommer - Gustav Mahler

Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran
Words and music by Francisco Santiago
(1889-1947)

Francisco Santiago was born in Santa Maria, Bulacan. He was seven when he first learned how to play the piano. At the founding of the UP Conservatory of Music in 1916, he became one of its piano instructors. In 1923 he married Concepcion de Leon, with whom he had four children.

He obtained his master's and doctorate degrees in the United States, and came back to continue teaching at the UP Conservatory. Santiago was also a musical director for film. He was given the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award in 1968.

Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran is about one's desire for the sweetness that love can bring, and yet one's hesitation about the inevitable heartbreak that such an experience can engender.

Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran by Francisco Santiago

Recorded on Dec. 31, 2006 

This is the Flores Family's rendition of The Holly and the Ivy, a traditional British Christmas carol.

Enjoy!

UCM Dec. 31, 2006

The Holly and the Ivy

Mutya Ng Pasig by Nicanor Abelardo

This text was written by English satirist Thomas Brown, and was set to music and arranged for piano accompaniment by Henry Lane Wilson. It is about a young maiden expecting a young lad to impress her if he really wants to win her heart.

Mia Flores

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