UST Singers "Pokpok Alimpako"

[kuntrabida]

@Smurfygurl12: I totally agree. This is the best interpretation of this piece that I've ever heard and I would say that it will be hard, and I doubt if any other choir can interpret and perform this same piece better or at least equal this performance.Among the UST batch, pinaka gusto ko ang group na eto kasi mukhang typical na estudyante ang dating nila.

[Smurfygurl12]

i had to learn this for NJ all state chorus and LET ME TELL YOU it's a freaking hard song. this is the best version i have ever heard of it! :D

[mzk3812]

Absolutely phenomenal performance: the sounds, textures, and musicality of this choir and piece is amazing.

[mzk3812]

Wow! This is unreal

[TheAdarna67]

Yeah I agreed to @dantbp...the best rendition!

[asdfgheart]

proud to be a maranao! :) i used to play this with my friends when i was young.. nice song.. thanks UST singers for making us proud. thumbs up for you guys!

[farbehind18]

nice version..

[newginafets2009]

best version i've heard.

[evyjo33]

NJ allstate choir is singing this :0

[icickel]

@evyjo33 there's no way that I can do this song like that XD I'm in it, too, and I can't sing it without laughing yet. Nor will i ever have this memorized.

[theadiboy21]

best version I heard!

[ricryan2010]

kaya pala nanalo sila kasi mga bata mga kalaban nila, peace! ilang bansa po pala ang kasali dito? kasi mga napanood ko sa contest mga bata yung iba.

[Aerodynamic14]

larong pokpok ayus nga yan

[herbertalustestica]

BRAVO UST...ANG GALING NIYO TALAGA

[ldabdulrashid1]

great singers



[ldabdulrashid1]

great



[ASHIA0610]

amazing... im so proud being maranao... hahaha this songs reminds me of my childhood stage...

[santosflordale]

GREAT!

[crownedHFS]

so great! very standing ovation! am so proud

[evolookah1]

wow!! that`s awesome!!!!! even though i didn`t understand!! :))

[soyhombrecaliente]

@evolookah1 im from the philippines but i also dont understand the language... hehehe it's somewhat from the native tribes in the southern... im not sure....

[babayetu9]

we're singing this for our competition piece! this is a really amazing performance by the way!

[ParamataBantogen]

here's the complete version:

"Pok pok a limpako, pok limpako piko, malalagoy di Dali, daon si Boroboro, bekar ka sa isa, aden matatarotop..."

Being the one speaking this language makes me proud my culture is being preserved abroad by people of other cultures...

[ibascoz]

gagaling talaga ng ust choir! *jaw dropped* they are AMAZING!! hanep talaga!!! well disciplined

[rainids]

I used to play pokpok alimpako during my childhood days. It's a maranao song.

[fayeheaven]

Reminds me of my childhood... "bekar ka isa an matatarotop"! :-)

[Touristo07]

Mga pokemon ata yan =))

[17ANIMA]

palitan tayo ng piyesa :)

[popfun11]

haha ang cute..mganda dn ung version ng troubadours sa san agustin iloilo...

wla ba nto ung madrigal?

[betscie]

ay dipuga! haha...nice! love it!

[shaims21]

Magaling po!! It's a maranao song we used to play pokpok alimpako wen we were kids po... Si Dali ang main Character nung kanta.. The game was like putting your palm together in the center, like doing a ritual or like that of a basketball team after the coach's break..

may kasunod pa yung lyrics eh.. "Iporo so olan, ibaba so bitoon" (itaas ang buwan, ibaba ang mga bituin) "kolo, kolo, kolo" (scaratching each members head para guluhin ang hair ng bawat isa.) after that saka tawanan kame lhat.

[malignantquiapo]

@shaims21 thanks sa explanation. now we know why they laughed at the end. amazing!

[themonyoful]

Its maranao language i think..."pokpok alimpako malalagoy si dali daon si moro-boro bekaar ka sa isa.." hirap translate sa tagalog..pok-pok= Hit.. malalagoy= tumatakbo...bekaar= open...isa=isa..hehehe

[PokeguyDavid]

Unbelievable.

This song is hard.

And i mean HARD.

My schools madrigal group is attempting this and OMG it is practically impossible!

[Aerodynamic14]

maganda kaya yung si alimpako? pokpok daw eh xD

[carlomiranda25]

the music is very interesting....even though i can't seem to understand the words carefully, i still can see the essence of the song being originally and culturally filipino...

[ilovetosingforyou]

they didn't follow the real dynamics...and what thearranger wanted it to be sound like

[entengpol]

excuse me, are you the arranger? if no, then shut up.

[hotkrish21]

grabe..... nung nag compete choir namin sa childrens division ( were only young dipa kmi hs) sa ccp wala kmi sa 1/4 nyn...galing nila

[Kancil660]

Galing talaga but why does the laugh sound so fake?

[revjohn13]

ang galing po tlga... hehehe xna po pag aralan dn namen yang kntand 2...

[blue30tube]

power!

[incurablehumanist]

nakaka tawa nga yung version. mero ang pulido, panalo.

[ianbr1193]

Sayang kung tinuloy ko yung Course q na B in Music dyn Sa UST...

Mgiging member sna aq! gling nyo!!!

Pera lng problema kc dpt knwldge hnd nbbyrn! peo gling nu!!!!!! kip up d gud wirj!

[cristcully]

wow! i love u po mga UST singers

grabe super galing nu po! lalu na po sa tinig ng lupa!

hindi tlaga kumukupas ang kagalingan ng mga pilipino!

val' ccc

[Mariahnator123]

GALING!!! tlga ng mga pinoy...ehhem...at pinay....

[fcukcool]

hey guys is that in wales-- eistedfood

i live in north wales..

[afertyu]

hi wilby,

I thought it is a traditional middle-east kid's chant... It is composed by francesco feliciano... :)

[jowjose]

PARANG MGA IBON. ehe

[joven744]

hahahahahaha...ang galing nyo..

lol

[joven744]

Galing nyo tol I LOVE YOU

[TheOneThatFlewOver]

fantastic. I sang this song a few years ago in a choir and it was a lot of fun. These guys blow it out of the water.

[alshamir]

parang chinese version dahil sa voice nng isa sa mga soprano... : )

[jowjose]

we have the same opinion.. parang chinese ung "pakpakalipak and so on" i think they were trying to sound oriental thats why... but i think thats cool... some pips kasi like nelo(look at chuay UST SINGERS from jojiebadilla), told me that UST's version is funny... i beg to disagree...

i think theyre revision is great.

[ildr2003]

I really liked the part at 1:32 when the guys starts to do vocal, it's like a surprise... weird but nice composition... LOL

[BigBoomer231]

nothing beats the original! <3

[lloydalenton]

your simply the best group , you

are the only group that can this song with perfection!

kudos to ust !

[dantbp]

Nothing beats the original. Awesome job!

[liquidchylde]

@dantbp

huh?????The Original Version was from the AILM chorale....this is where Dr. Francisco Feliciano is teaching...

[rhon71395]

galing nila talaga..

[DeniR3]

muy chevere, demasiado chico

[rohan041378]

sa lahat mga vid ng pokpok alimpako ito ang may buhay!!

[bluid]

wla makakatalo dito.™

[nematel]

The best version of this song to date! Great precise singing...not irritating to the ears...even their laughing at the end was like music...

[kwechkwech]

great song, great arrangement, great performance!

[girbaud07]

THE BEST VERSION EVER

NU ba naman, CHOIR of the World ang UST, the best chorale group in the country

[ildr2003]

I think it would take great skills in singing trying to do that. That's gotta be hard to sing. No wonder they've won the competition with this piece.

[kukuripakuu]

sa lahat ng narining kong version pinakamaganda ito

[kukuripakuu]

wow parng mga iBON... ang galing

[elmofunk00]

pokpok?

[philchoir]

great sound. balanse tunog. this is one of the best choir in the world!

[jords17]

> galing talaga...... ^_^

[jords17]

galing ng UST........

> ang hirap talaga ng piyesa na yan....

> mOre pOwer to UST.....

> UB Voices Chorale...member

[bulatetuts]

galing. mahirap talaga yung pyesa kaya parang nagmukhang constipated yung facial expressions nung iba. hehe. nice job though. galing ng ust singers.

[Franz4939]

Haha. Nice observation. :)

[loloi]

Pokpok Alimpako has been composed by Dr. Francisco Feliciano based on a Maranao children's song. It has been one of the contest pieces for NAMCYA's high school choir competition category in the 80s

[ldeevayd]

1981 to be exact.....

[anishaelin]

This isn't composed by UST definitely. The rendition is theirs of course. This is borrowed from the children's game of my people, the Maranaos, the people of the Lake.

[xXxlovelikewinterxXx]

my choir's in the process of learning this song. it's extremely difficult.

[leelarsen]

very nice, thanks. Hard to believe it's the same group on the Elijah Rock video, which I just listened to. E-mail me if you are coming to the DC area in the USA and I will definitely come see you! :)

[Takoon]

I love this song so much. -^ ^- It's so much fun to sing. We did it with a little different tempos for the sections, but I love that the ending is sooo fast! We probably did the ending half that fast, and the middle part with the 'ma-la-la's twice as fast. *lol*

So good!

[marcadajar]

ang galing shete....

[amane013]

anong year 'to ng NAMCYA, kc kasali din ako noon sa namcya eh, But our choral only won Regionals(Region 4-a) noong 2004

its hella fun

[zphinx1224]

its not namcya competition

competition yan sa england noong 1995

[ldeevayd]

Nanalo ba sila nun??

[philchoir]

OO yata. dito yata yung choir of the World Title nila nakuha. One of the best choir talaga sila sa buong mundo

[krnxchox7]

i love this song

[doreen2317]

ang saya kantahin yan

very interesting!

[narsako0401]

wooah.. insan ko kasali dito.. hehe.. galing nila tlg..

[xoteddyxo01]

my hs vocal ensemble performed htis ...it was soo much fum! everytime we sang it we had ppl coming up to us going "omg that was so cool but wtf was that!" lol

[marlalita]

galing

[pinkee07]

I Loooooove this choir! Awesome!

[ongdingyi]

AILM one is still the best. Jonathan Velasco's one. Timing was abit off for some parts

[russeldv]

napanood ko yong sa AILM noh. hindi naman maganda.mas maganda pa nga yong interpretation ng mga chinese eh. UST singers has the best interpretation.

[micklefox]

Hahaha! My choir did this my junior year of highschool! It was great fun. ^_^ I love it!

[djriano]

saan kaya makakuha ng piece

[chew23]

bravo.. cno ng compose n2??

[djriano]

galing ...

[joelrianopunay]

galing!!!!!

[kwonsw]

Wow!

[2007apeiron]

ang galing ng nasa 1:32..ang cool

[Tthira]

This was one of the songs the Asian Chorale from AILM sung when we toured Sweden in 1988. Dr. Feliciano wanted a dance troupe with the Chorale group and we were the lucky ones! I remember that everytime they sung this song there was always a standing ovation. You're really great too!

[jziphong]

pardn my rudeness once more!...UST Singers "Pokpok Alimpako" sounds better than that done by vocal consort!!!

[carlmed]

correction... singers pala.. hehe

[carlmed]

sino po nagco-conduct? diba si sir calalang po ang conductor ng singer?

[PaulJacob]

galing!

[umcbethelst]

wow!!! nyc... may tape kmi nito... hehehe.... nice tlga.. malinis na malinis.. God bless po..=)

[yoshiharu07]

galing talaga ng pinoy. . . sana ay mag sama ang madz at ust singers sa iisang concert. . . im xur. . amazing talaga ang outcome. . and also wag natin isabong ang UST and madz. . they are both magagaling and unique choral groups. . gusto ko talagang makasali sa mga ganyang choral groups. . kaso kailangan ko pa ng training eh. . Chene Quidaw pirmi guyz. . GOd bless you . .

[amatztoh]

wow>>> nice interpretation

[insanerhapsodist]

hanga naman ako. galing!

[hiiamdib]

OMG nothing to say

[pawpaw2977]

Simply Awesome!

[8oogers]

that was scarey. right at the beginning and right at the end. Really good though after the first couple of laughs. OMG im whitewashed

[ycseet]

This interpretation is cool =) hahahs cute!

[rodelbulan]

Di ba sila lumalaban sa World Chior Games? Sana they can represent our country there... mas maganda pa ung piece na yan keysa dun sa piece nung ibagng nanalo na tag indonesia... parang pearly shell sila..lolz...bdw, Good luck po! Galing talaga ng pinoy!

[spititout18]

i dont really like these type that much. but thats some really good shit

[choyzee]

the best!!!! this is really old.. nandito pa si myleen eh. galing!!!! go prof. fidel! go ust singers :)

[mabeth16]

tang ina ka galing ah

[witchlap]

do you have ust singers recent videos? the present batch.

[carlomarko]

saan po ito ginanap?

[alamakkanasai]

looks like llangollen music festival

[barongatsaya]

Good job, Wilby for posting this! Meron ka bang video performance ng group noong batch '99 and 2000? Sana meron at paki-post mo rin. Magaling din ang batches na iyon. thanks.

[ludwigvan888]

ha ha i like the title, POKPOK!

[drjohn28]

This piece was composed by Francisco Feliciano for the Children's Choir Category in NAMCYA. It's basically a play of words depicting children at play. Nakaka-miss yung mga ganitong performance ng UST Singers. Di na kasi sila kumakanta masyado ng ethnic ngayon.