By Paquito S. Saratiosa
R. David Paul Zorc will arrive Kalibo on March 5, 2006. His arrival will relieve the days when Zorc dared to make the first English – Aklanon dictionary. It will also bring to mind his formation and training of the Boys Choir in Kalibo while he was a Peace Corps Volunteer where he trained all the 120 boys.
On the same year when Zorc formed the Boys Choir, the late Kalibo Mayor Federico O. Icamina along with the late Kalibo Vice Mayor Gaudioso C. Martelino formed the more known and famous Kalibo Men’s Choir. The Kalibo Men’s Choir had their debut during a Philippine National Red-Cross-Aklan Chapter musical presentation on June 17, 1967 at the Aklan College gym-auditorium which was filled to the rafters. Thereafter, they performed in several occasions.
The Kalibo Men’s Choir still exists and when occasion demands, they can still sing. Some of its members had already departed to the great beyond but to recall some names of the Kalibo Men’s Choir, as follows: Edwin Formaran (+), Roberto Matoree (+), lawyers Arturo R. Quimpo, Daniel Y. Martelino, Diego M. Luces and Ronquillo C. Tolentino; Rosauro Roldan, Rhett Roldan, Tito Payad, Jesusimo Laurente, Flocerpido Gonzales, Ben Quimpo, Cipriano Maribojo, Jr., Gil F. Martelino, Johnny Tonel, Felipe Oquendo (+), Stephen Concepcion (+), Sergio Salazar and Ruben Salazar.
Summer is again here. Aside from the various athletic tournaments lined up in the province, municipalities and barangays, may we see more Information of choirs like the Boys’ Choir and Kalibo Men’s Choir. For, indeed, music, has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
The musical revival of old songs started five years ago during the governorship of now congressman Joeben T. Miraflores, by Attorneys Allen Salas Quimpo and Ronquillo C. Tolentino shall have another presentation on the 50th Anniversary of Aklan on the first term of Governor Carlito S. Marquez.
More power to haunting and unforgettable music of the good old days! /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
R. David Paul Zorc will arrive Kalibo on March 5, 2006. His arrival will relieve the days when Zorc dared to make the first English – Aklanon dictionary. It will also bring to mind his formation and training of the Boys Choir in Kalibo while he was a Peace Corps Volunteer where he trained all the 120 boys.
On the same year when Zorc formed the Boys Choir, the late Kalibo Mayor Federico O. Icamina along with the late Kalibo Vice Mayor Gaudioso C. Martelino formed the more known and famous Kalibo Men’s Choir. The Kalibo Men’s Choir had their debut during a Philippine National Red-Cross-Aklan Chapter musical presentation on June 17, 1967 at the Aklan College gym-auditorium which was filled to the rafters. Thereafter, they performed in several occasions.
The Kalibo Men’s Choir still exists and when occasion demands, they can still sing. Some of its members had already departed to the great beyond but to recall some names of the Kalibo Men’s Choir, as follows: Edwin Formaran (+), Roberto Matoree (+), lawyers Arturo R. Quimpo, Daniel Y. Martelino, Diego M. Luces and Ronquillo C. Tolentino; Rosauro Roldan, Rhett Roldan, Tito Payad, Jesusimo Laurente, Flocerpido Gonzales, Ben Quimpo, Cipriano Maribojo, Jr., Gil F. Martelino, Johnny Tonel, Felipe Oquendo (+), Stephen Concepcion (+), Sergio Salazar and Ruben Salazar.
Summer is again here. Aside from the various athletic tournaments lined up in the province, municipalities and barangays, may we see more Information of choirs like the Boys’ Choir and Kalibo Men’s Choir. For, indeed, music, has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, and bend the knotted oak.
The musical revival of old songs started five years ago during the governorship of now congressman Joeben T. Miraflores, by Attorneys Allen Salas Quimpo and Ronquillo C. Tolentino shall have another presentation on the 50th Anniversary of Aklan on the first term of Governor Carlito S. Marquez.
More power to haunting and unforgettable music of the good old days! /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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