 Ito ang tonogatinig ng UP College of Music, mga musika at kwento mula sa Abilardo Hall Auditorium ng UP Deliman. Pinagkakwento ang natin yung concert na nag-anap na pinamagatang Back Home with Mr. C and Friends. The coconuts will grow heavy and full. I shall pick up one. I shall suck their milk. I shall suck out the coconuts, little white songs I shall be reminded of. Musicong ito, mga experts na sila in their old fields. Ang worry ko, bakit sila may ingan yung bumalik dito? Pero alam nyo, even for Mr. C or Ryan K. Albiab, kakaiba yung feeling na tumutugtog sa Abilardo Hall Auditorium. May certain standard na hinahanap dito at may certain types of repertoire na dito lang talaga nila may enjoy at matutugtog dahil siguro sanay sila sa mga concert venues sa labas na may mga demands na dapat ay siguro accessible sa audience, may popularity dapat, pero dito pwede nilang balikan talaga yung mga musika na ini-enjoy nila at demanding para sa level nilang musicians. Kaya patuloy yung interaction nila at one to one sila sa nagawa nilang collaboration na siguro naminist na rin nila yung level of collaboration pero hindi lang yung collaboration nila yun, hindi lang technical, hindi lang dun sa music mismo kunday yung personal level. Gano ng importante sa music making. Music making is not just an act of producing pleasant sounds but it's an act of interaction. It's a social act at kadalasan collaborative yung act na yun. Pag medyo sinaswerte, merong magic na nangyayari sa collaboration na yun. Hindi lang lang dahil na agustuhan ng audience, hindi lang lang maganda yung naproduce na musica, kunday merong coming together of like minds and hearts of these artists. I shall kiss a coconut. One, two, three. I shall kiss a coconut because it is the nipple of a woman. Because it is the nipple of a woman. Nipple of the woman. A woman. Ito yung point nila yun at tagal sa itong point na ito ng yun. Well, I've learned almost everything here from my professor then, Santiago Yanko, technique and everything. You see, professors make it easy for the students. Iyang close relationship between teacher and student. Mahaba ang pinaguhubot ang history niyan, lalo na sa arts at sa music specifically dahil master-disciple ang setup na pinito, apprenticeship program. You know, you already know the hardships and the hard parts of how you can improve your playing. So they remove that aspect and they teach you what to do. So you're sort of like it's already, they make it easier for you. Now, I'm a professor in St. Scholastica's College and I'm the cello teacher in the program called Ang Mission. Ang Mission has an orchestra and it's called Orchestra of the Filipino Youth. Well, it was designed for indigenous kids and then we choose the best and we have a couple of satellites around the Philippines and then when they're advanced enough to be in the main orchestra, well, we hold auditions first and then we see who is qualified to be part of the main orchestra. Well, for me, I think I've done a great part of my contribution to flute playing as you can see with my students the level of playing has really gone up. Pieces before that, I would just dream of being able to play while I was still here. My students are all playing them now. For example, like the pieces that I'm learning in Paris that was the time that, because it's not the country or the conservatory, the school that brings up the level, but the students, it's among you that you hear people playing like this and you have to be like them or at least you know, you get this idea of playing better. Because like in Paris, you don't get to graduate if you don't get first prize. Ang naisip na si Ryan Kayab Yab o si Mr. C, ang magigintampok sa concertong ito, medyo concerned ako dahil patanggapin kaya ni Ryan ang offer na tumugtog muli sa Abelardo Hall Auditorium, pero na wala naman lahat ng akong worries dahil agad siyang pumayag at siya pa mismo ang kumilala sa mga makakasaman ang mga artista o friends at naging very magical moment sa kanila yung coming together, yung unang insayo pa lang e talagang parang homecoming. Makikita nyo yan sa mga susunod na exena. One has to face the fact that you have to practice all the time was practicing. A lot of people didn't, I thought that I was not practicing at all because the fact was I would start practicing early in the morning. Our history class was at 8 am at Abelardo Hall and I was already here at the college at 7 o'clock or even before that and I started to practice from 7 or 6.30 to 8 o'clock a.m. So in the afternoon I just have to practice a little bit more but I already did all my exercises and all those practices in the morning. Well, there's a series of technical exercises for the flute to get used to the instrument itself because you need to be physically ready to play an instrument. You can adjust, hold an instrument and play it for, I don't know, 2 hours. I used to practice 6 to 8 hours a day when I was abroad. So to be able to play that long and to keep your concentration concentration is very important when you practice without concentration means nothing but you will notice that when you practice intelligently or you sort of like try to study what you're studying is you notice that you can only in the beginning you can only hold your concentration or physically keep the flute up. You need to hold the flute in one position for so many long hours. At first you could only hold it for 5 minutes or less and then you continue to build up your stamina you keep it there for 15 minutes and 20 minutes and 30 minutes until you can hold it for as long as you want. In fact it just came like that it was fun, it was nice you had a feeling of improving yourself discipline wise and everything because in music case you really have to have discipline. What I found most important was intelligent practicing not just practicing not just repeating the notes but intelligently approaching every aspect of music and plus a lot of imagination. In musicianship ay kita natin dalawang concerns ang concern nila na i-develop yung sarili nila ng talento yung sarili nila ng skill kaya kung pianista ka hours and hours ang ginagawa mo mag-isa ka lang sa kwanto pero hindi na tapos doon kasi interactive nga ang music collaborative so kailangan nilang makipag come together with other musicians in producing this great works kaya two faced yung pag-develop ng sarili mo sarili mong personality as a musician and your ability to connect with people with other musicians who have their own individual unique identities as well. Ngayon, pagkanag-gel together yung doon nangyayade ang magic ng music. The arrangements became the arrangement became two cows but for the first time we were performing it as a flute cello ng piano so what do you call it? Flute trio Pwede ba yun? O alawat ay nang bago millennial style FCP FCP trio FCP trio It's by Foray a vocal piece The English translation is after a dream it describes the the feeling you get after you have this dream so it's very it's not clear what's happening but at the same time the emotions in the piece are also mixed. Musical performance is out of the ordinary time it's a certain realm pwede mo siyang ihowig sa ritual na lumalabas kayo sa ordinary yung pang araw-araw na experience at pumapaso sa kaibang realm Sa realm na yun yung mga hindi posibles o ordinary time to ordinary mundo maaring may imagine It brings you out of this world it brings you to the past it brings you to a certain memory it brings you to the future to the world of things that are not possible kaya ganon ka-importante ang field of music and performing in front of the community When people can come together they achieve a certain dimension or they enter into a certain plane that is outside of the ordinary world pwede mo sa bingin parang trance May mga nagsasabi nga at trance we experience that in different increments every day and a good example of that is music You think about the technicalities of my instrument too much I don't think about the shift or the fingerings anymore For me it's like a language it's like you're speaking to cello is just another part of my body that brings out the language that I want to brings out the words that I want to say in the performance this is the time when you need to get lost in the music but when you're practicing it's different Well, there's always some different ways of approaching something call it like not really a problem because in music you have so many different interpretations it could be perfectly wise note wise perfect, everything perfect technique but it would sound still different from one player to another because of its interpretation that's where the imagination comes in what do you imagine what do you see in the music what do you hear what do you feel all of those are included in one sort of like when you play when you perform and my exposure when I was studying here when I was studying in Paris was it really the fact that I saw lots of paintings, artworks museums in Europe and also here in the Philippines made you more sort of like artistic or more creative because you have all these artworks and art experiences that you put together to create your own in a way that's what music is all about from all your experiences in life you create something new yeah but it sounds new it looks new it's actually a rehash of all your experiences in life so ito mga artist nga ito si Tony Mayige si Keith Navarro si Jonathan Badon si Ryan Kaya Bia at yung batang si Giancarlo Gonzalez they've made their name in various in these various musical fields but when they came together they realized wow this is what we have been missing all along siguro the act of coming back to home to the college of music and the back and the occasion of coming together with your friends important yun e when you play music merong kayong pinag-uwagutan kasi may pinagsamahan kayong malalim and yet dahil nagkahiwala hiwala hiwala kayo ngayon pagbalik nyo meron din kayong dalang kanyakanyang ibang unique ang bag or unique contribution dahil nagbago ka na hindi kayong kagay ang Jonathan Badon nakilala ni Mr. Sinong Arao pero ito ngayon siya mga bagong maturity dahil sa long long years of performing as an artist naputuwantua itong Mr. C and friends na ito patuloy ang kanalang exchanges sa FB Messenger nakaruna na mga biruan and so on at iniisip na ba kailangan ang itur na raw ito inang iniisip na la kailangan ng itur sayang yung pagkakataon well hindi natin alam kung kaya ng itur pero I'm only sharing that with you kasi ibig sabihin talagang hindi lamang na enjoy ng audience yung Mr. C and friends coming together and great music but more than that na enjoy nung friends na ito nung performers na ito ang coming back home and offering their artist tree to the community If I have not been a student here at the University of the Philippines maybe it would life for me would just be an ordinary one ordinary in terms of it's not as adventurous as what I've experienced along the way I would advise them to just follow their passion whatever their passion would be just go for it be adventurous try new things and learning is not just when you're in school you learn even after school even with your families and friends learning keeps on coming so always have open arms for those It's not going to be like what happens today that everything is instant if you take up music or take up cello or whatever instrument it's important to realize that it's going to be a slow process it's not all about emotions and passion we have to work hard with of course the mechanics of your instrument like technique we need to practice for 8,000, 8,000 10 hours a day we do that the competition in Paris among students was so high that we would learn an etude 2 to 3 etudes a week here sometimes you will learn an etude for one semester and in the beginning it was impossible to do but then I had a classmate who would memorize all of them so that's how you get to sort of like train yourself to do things nothing is impossible really if there is an opportunity grab it because sometimes opportunity knocks only once first you have to think you have to decide and you stick to it you stick to it meaning you are ready to do whatever it takes dream high and don't give up U.P. College of Music kung saan tining nating ang magika o magic na nangayari pag ang mga artista community ay nagsama-sama sa isang special pagkakataon para maka-experience ng music music na hindi na nangyariari sa ordinaryong panahon kung kailan maaris lang mag-imagine o mag-alaala na mga bagay yan ang sinasabi nating maika ng music abangan natin ng iba pang kuento at musika dito sa tunog at tinig