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Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« on: December 15, 2008, 07:35:25 PM »
per email of Sir Rizal Victoria, member Knights of Rizal (Heidelberg Chapter & personal friend of Sir Hans Schoof)

Montano, Ayalas toast Bohol heritage


By Pablo Tariman
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:39:00 12/15/2008
Filed Under: Arts (general), Culture (general)


THREE years ago in Bohol, actor Cesar Montano showed me the interiors of the
Baclayon town church, built in 1727 by the Jesuits using coral-stone blocks
from the sea and egg white and plaster to glue the blocks together.

With it gilded altars, Baroque and Classical inner façade and its retablos
highlighted by images of saints, I told the award-winning actor, “What a
beautiful venue for concert!” Later, I would test the acoustics and found it
excellent.

Earlier, I learned that film scorer Nonong Buencamino recorded the choir
music used in the Marilou Diaz-Abaya film “Muro-Ami” in this church and the
award-winning film was actually shot on Bohol Bay.

Later, Montano also told me about the church’s historic pipe organ, which
was installed in the choir loft in 1824 and years later found itself in a
state of disrepair.

Experts say the Baclayon pipe organ has the character of Spanish Baroque
organs and its parts could mimic the sound of birds through the little
pajarillo pipes. It can also enhance melodies with the tinkling of the
cascabeles, an ornamental stop with bells on a wheel drum and campanillas.

Through the assistance of Patricia Zobel de Ayala and the Ayala Foundation
Inc., the organ’s pipes, wind chests, manual keyboard, pedal and other
accessories were repaired extensively and restored to their original form.

Saturday morning last week, I saw Montano at the Tagbilaran airport and told
him about the Baclayon concert, which would officially herald the coming to
life of the newly restored Baclayon pipe organ.

In the evening, I found myself on the church choir loft with Montano and
wife Sunshine Cruz, watching a concert featuring composer-conductor
Cristobal Halffter and pianist Maria Manuela Caro on the pipe organ.

In the audience were Jaime Augusto Zobel, Sofia Zobel, Patricia Zobel and
Bea Zobel Jr., who is behind a renewed restoration program involving Bohol’s
cultural heritage.

So fragile

Pianist Maria Manuela Caro opened the concert with Antonio de Cabezon’s
(1510-1566) Tiento del Primer Tono, followed by a Handel largo solo arranged
by AR Parsons.

As the first two numbers unfolded, one realized the musical instrument was
so fragile. It needed a focused assistant to keep it in tune and go through
its complicated parts, like its ornamental stop and its tambor (big wood
pipes) used to create rumbling sound similar to a drum.

Bach’s Aria and the 7th Variation of the Goldberg Variation had a fairly
good reading, and I suppose this piece is better off played on the piano to
preserve its original nuances.

One got to finally hear the uses of the big wood pipes and the reed stops
with Juan Bautista Cabanilles’s “Batalla Imperial.”

The piece is a musical replica of a military battle and was properly the
most virtuosic piece played on the program.

The evening was highlighted with Halffter playing Christmas carols from
different countries. He concluded with a contemporary piece that ended with
the use of the organ’s pajarillo pipes echoing the sound of birds, and we
thought that was the most charming and compelling number from the concert.

The significance of this concert is that the Zobel family helped bring back
to life the remaining musical symbol of the town’s cultural heritage while
also assisting the town embark on a massive restoration campaign to preserve
its historical, cultural and natural sites, including local traditions in
craftsmanship.

Late in the night after the concert, Lani Schoof (wife of Hans Schoof, owner
of Baclayon’s Peacock Garden Resort and Spa) treated Montano and company to
a late-night cap.

Schoof, who is German but very Boholano (and Filipino) at heart, earlier
showed us his Rizal collections in his cigar room, including furniture from
Heidelberg where Rizal stayed in Germany.

It was an uncanny coincidence Montano had played Rizal in Abaya’s “Rizal.”

Montano remarked before the night cap ended: “It would be nice to hear
Cecile Licad play in Bohol next year after this historic pipe organ concert
in our historic town.”
 


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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2009, 04:22:26 PM »
ask the residents if they're happy about it...

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2009, 04:26:50 PM »
ning bagting akong dunggan abi nako ako! hahahhah

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 02:59:56 AM »
El Mundo, this is something to be proud of. Baclayon has a cultural impact made. Why should the people be asked? This is a process for us to be cultured. Certain sectors might not be happy , the question is why? Are they exploited? Are their taxes misused?

ps

I´m bitterly disapponted with this posting I thought El Mundo is an intelligent journalist.

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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 02:20:25 PM »
El Mundo, this is something to be proud of. Baclayon has a cultural impact made. Why should the people be asked? This is a process for us to be cultured. Certain sectors might not be happy , the question is why? Are they exploited? Are their taxes misused?

ps

I´m bitterly disapponted with this posting I thought El Mundo is an intelligent journalist.

Excuse, why are you disappointed when I just replied "ask the residents if they're happy about it..."? what's the big deal? and i'm not a blabber when i post messages here.

to know the impact and sustainability of your project in the community, it's the people who know best. ask them what's the impact of the project... what the benefits they can get?, etc....

i don't argue that baclayon is rich in culture. that's an established fact. 

when the organ was installed (of course the Ayala dished out millions just to restore it), there was an entrance fee for the "concert" they had... a poor Baclayanon who wanted to hear the music could not get inside because he/she had no money to pay for the entrance. i'd been there and i talked with the people who were disappointed.

this is what I have to tell you... we are open to institutions  and meaningful agencies which want to help certain communities because we want change, we want progress and we want development.

Way back in 2005, i fought for bio-piracy because the government allowed our natural resources to be exploited by scientists in Panglao seas.

there is another one, the palm oil plantation which was introduced to Bohol.  the partner agency promised millions to our farmers and offered loans to those who plant about it. there's a less study about the effects of palm oil plantation. the company based in indonesia/malaysia which introduced the palm oil plantation was protested in indonesia and malaysia because the land became barren and no longer suitable for growing plants.

why am saying these things? because we always jump to a conclusion that whenever projects like i mentioned above, we always say that it brings goodies without studying it further.

i am not saying Ayala is bad because they are a great help to Bohol. In fact, they offered loans to fishermen in pamilacan island for a community project. The Ayalas are business people. A Foundation is just part of returning the blessings they have.

Remember the story of Trojan Horse. Troy was reminded not to accept the wooden horse gift from the Greeks..the cause of Troy's downfall.





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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2009, 03:49:43 PM »
ask the residents if they're happy about it...

with all due respect el mundo, the abovequoted posting sounds loaded. i mean, there's someting about it that could reasonably put someone in fire.

anyway, what i read in the national dailies was that the show was for free.  i suggest we ask the organizers/LGU who mandated the collection of entrance fees.

P.S. i doubt the Ayalas have anything to do about it. (more so me) lol 

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2009, 03:54:28 PM »
I´m not finished I will check on that.

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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2009, 04:41:11 PM »
Calle,  BUSINESS IS ALWAYS A BUSINESS.

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2009, 05:27:39 PM »
Thanks Manay for opening this beautiful topic & information.

Leo, keep up the good work of honest journalism. Manay, Leo is just conveying the sentiment of the people as a journalist. Of course he has also his own personal opinion.

However, in my honest opinion, the people of Baclayon are acting 'sour grapes' just because the credit goes to someone else. Too much of hypocrisy; for many years nobody has done nothing to preserve/restore this priceless jewel and it was left to rot. In fact, many historical artifacts at the church were stollen and these theft incidents were not given much importance/ no sense of ownership.

I don't mind if somebody has profited of the concert as long as the piece was restored to its glory.

There is nothing lost here, but pride. Both parties gained something and I am happy that this piece of treasure is exposed to international level.

On other points (palm oil & bio piracy), I am glad of Leo's views. We should look before leaping. Any corporation is not for charity and they came for big time profits. We should not allow any of them to inch-in without undergoing transparent negotiation for a win-win deal. The media/journalists plays an important role on this.

If the project is from the UN, World Bank or non-profit organization, then we should have second thoughts.

Leo, I would greatly appreciate if you would cover the Garcia Hernandez Philippine Sinter aftermath. If you would conduct a documentary and interviews of the affected residents and what happens after 30 years and what will happen after completion of it's contract 70 years from now, who have profited, is there any benefit, etc. This is a good example.

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2009, 08:22:39 AM »
Calle,  BUSINESS IS ALWAYS A BUSINESS.

Noted. Even the so-called Corporate Social Responsibility is geared to benefit the business of their empires.

But i reiterate my suggestion above to ask personalities concerned how the entrance fees came about.

Thanks! (wala koy source diri man gud)

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Re: Montano, Ayalas toast Baclayon´s Church Bohol heritage
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2009, 08:29:25 AM »

Leo, I would greatly appreciate if you would cover the Garcia Hernandez Philippine Sinter aftermath. If you would conduct a documentary and interviews of the affected residents and what happens after 30 years and what will happen after completion of it's contract 70 years from now, who have profited, is there any benefit, etc. This is a good example.

Interesting ni nga topic sir.  I have friends who are either connected to the company as employees, landowners or just plain residents (and their sons/daughters) of the town.

Everytime magbaha sa garcia, the garcianhons would easily put the plame on the mining company. ang mga employees nga mga garcianhon muingon pud nga before pa natukod ang mining company, sige nag baha diha sa garcia!

Pit Senyor!

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