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The modern Philippine Army Band considers itself the successor to the Philippine Constabulary Band. According to it, "the PA Band is the fulfilment of the first American civil governor William Howard Taft’s promise of forming a Filipino military band that would be a counterpart of the famous US Marine Band."
The Philippine Constabulary Band assembles prior to the 1909 U.S. presidential inaugural parade. The day after the inauguration the band was invited to perform for the president and Mrs. Taft at the White House, becoming the first band in history from outside the continental United States to perform at a White House reception. [6]
As a military officer, Navarro received badges as a carbine and revolver expert from the 1920 target season. [7] As a retired bandleader of the Philippine Constabulary Band, he continued his musical expertise by composing marches and other manuscripts, some are works from Bataan such as his "General Cramer", a military march, and his "The Hero", a funeral march.
Two Constables posing for a photo in the New York Tribune in 1905. Philippine Constabulary in 1910. The Philippine Constabulary (PC) was established on August 18, 1901, under the general supervision of the civil Governor-General of the Philippines, by the authority of Act. No. 175 of the Second Philippine Commission, to maintain peace, law, and order in the various provinces of the Philippine ...
Born Tirso Gimenez Fajardo y Delos Trino on September 24, 2010, in Las Piñas, Manila Province, Philippines. His father, Daniel Fajardo, was a music teacher and prominent part of the town's band. He became a Master Sergeant on Philippine Constabulary's Band. He is known as father of music in Las Piñas. [1]
He was born in a family of musicians; his father Lucino Buenaventura was a musician at the Spanish Artillery Band in Intramuros. He studied under Nicanor Abelardo at the University of the Philippines Diliman Conservatory of Music and graduated in 1932 with a Teacher's Diploma in Music, major in Science and Composition and became an assistant ...
The lyrics of this official version were written in 1907 in Cuba by G. Savoca, the regimental band leader (died 1912), after the regiment was formed in 1901 to serve in the Philippines. According to Harry McClintock, the tune was borrowed from an official march of the Philippine Constabulary Band, as played at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.
Later he started writing music for the local church by himself or in collaboration with his older brother Bernardo who organized the local band Banda de Lib-og. Potenciano later became the bandmaster of the same band until he joined the Philippine Constabulary Band in 1919. Historical marker installed in 2005