Philippine Daily Inquirer
April 4, 2008
Wanting to help revive interest in classical folk songs now fading slowly into oblivion, a Filipino doctor from Candelaria town in Quezon has staged a play featuring some of the Philippines’ finest kundiman pieces.
“Kundiman songs are so beautiful. But sad to say, most of them are now in the dustbin of history – almost forgotten, especially by the younger generation,” Dr. Crispino Punzalan, 57, an anesthesiologist based in New Jersey, said.
The kundiman is the signature plaintive Filipino love song of yesteryears. Mostly arranged in the minor key, it expresses the lamentations of a depressed lover.
Punzalan’s Arimunding-munding musical ran one hour and 45 minutes for four nights on Feb. 22, 23 and 29 and March 1 at the Sentro Pastoral Auditorium in Barangay Isabang in Lucena City, Quezon. Students, professionals, church people, politicians and the local cultural literati attended.
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