![]() Her work has inspired many other Filipino artists to pursue the same. But she always makes time to return to the Philippines to conduct workshops in singing, and promoting traditional music in public schools, private colleges, church organizations, and teachers’ conferences. She also continues to arrange Visayan songs and occasionally performs traditional music in schools and community gatherings. ![]() There, she introduces Visayan music, as well as Philippine folk tales and myths, to schoolchildren in the United States and abroad. Ma’am “Prescy” and her husband, Frederick Abraham, live in Vermont where she teaches privately. She remains to be an active professional musician, performing, recording, and touring internationally with professional choral and chamber ensembles, such as The Gregg Smith Singers, The New York Vocal Ensemble, and the John Biggs Consort. Her arrangements of folk songs have been included in the international touring repertoire of several Philippine choral ensembles. And so I collected and arranged them myself.” I wanted to sing them, but I could not find anything. “Necessity is the mother of invention,” she told the audience. Later, she would arrange and record them herself. In the 1950’s, Ma’am “Prescy” scoured most of the Visayas and Mindanao to collect endangered folk songs. She also performed a few of her favorite pieces for the audience as well. Her lecture featured stories behind her extensive collection of songs under this musical genre. Ma’am “Prescy”, as she is fondly called among friends and colleagues, explored the artistry behind Visayan folk songs and the traditional music of ethnic groups in southern Philippines. Renowned ethnomusicologist Priscilla Magdamo-Abraham opened this semester’s Albert Faurot Lecture Series for Culture and the Arts with her talk on “The Art of the Visayan Song” at the College of Performing and Visual Arts (COPVA) Music Sala on December 1. S4SES 1st International Conference on Education.University Christian Life Emphasis Month Calendar. ![]()
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