Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for
LSCI 110
– Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College
Master Danongan S.
Kalanduyan
Click here to read an essay titled:
“Cultural Activism Through Kulintang Music”,
by Victor Eco
and Nikki Santiago
Click on the links
below
to hear audio
segments from an November 2005 interview
by Victor Eco and Nikki Santiago
with Master Kalanduyan,
a master musician who specializes in
the pre-colonial
traditional music called Kulintang
of the Maguindanao
region of the
Master
Danongan Kalanduyan playing a song on the Kulintang.
Our
interview with Master Danny Kalanduyan:
1. Introduction
2. Growing up in the Philippines
5. Migrating to the United States
6. Teaching Kulintang music in the US and
in the Philippines
7. Promoting Filipino culture in the United
States
8. Becoming a Master of Kulintang music
10.
Other musicians in the family
11.
Bringing the Filipino American
community together in the U.S.
12.
Life without Kulintang music
13.
Message to Filipinos in Mindanao
14.
Message to the Filipino American
community
15.
Retirement
16.
Music Sample of the song “Duyog”
17.
“Duyog” played on the Xylophone
Introduction
(21KB)
Danongan Kalanduyan, but Danny is just fine.
Danny Kalanduyan
Growing up in the
Philippines (175KB)
Danny speaks of his
childhood and growing up in the region of
Datu
Piang in
Map of Maguindanao highlighting Datu Piang.
Playing Kulintang
music (489KB)
Master
Kalanduyan learns how to play his people’s pre-colonial tradition
of Kulintang music in his
early childhood days.
GONG ENSEMBLE. An ensemble of
Maguindanao youth playing with
the eight-piece Kulintang with an Agong and a Dabakan. Cotabato, 1961.
Performing
Kulintang music (139KB)
Master Kalanduyan shares
his experiences playing and performing Kulintang Music.
Danny
playing Kulintang with PKE
performers dancing the Pangalay.
Migrating
to the United States (462KB)
Danny shares his
uncommon story of migration to the
University of
Washington brought over Danny Kalanduyan to teach
in the
Teaching
Kulintang music in the US and in the Philippines (752KB)
Danny speaks about the
differences between teaching
in the
Danny at a teaching workshop in Los Angeles, CA.
Danny with Rachel Cerdenio.
Danny teaching at Skyline College.
Danny
giving the Dance 400 students pointers
toward
their Spring 2005 performance of
the Kapamalong-malong.
Promoting
Filipino culture in the United States (557KB)
Danny
shares his culture with many different people throughout the
Danny at a Kulintang demonstration.
Danny performing with San Francisco State University
group, Ating Tao.
Becoming a Master of Kulintang music (576KB)
Danny is honored with the title of master but likes to be just Danny.
Former
First Lady Hillary Clinton presenting
Danongan Kalanduyan with a Master artist
plaque in 1995.
Playing other
instruments (668KB)
Master Kalanduyan
talks about some of the other instruments
he
knows how to play besides the Kulintang.
The
Kulintang ensemble drum.
The Gandingans
Hanging gongscalled Tangunggu.
Other
musicians in the family (608KB)
Danny talks about
his family and their relation to Kulintang music.
Master
Kalanduyan’s brother Datuan on the Kutyapi.
Bringing the Filipino American community together in the
U.S. (665KB)
Danny explains the way the
Fil-Am youth show their interest in culture through
his
performances and in PCNs
Master
Kalanduyan with the
San Francisco Asian Art Museum on October 27, 2005.
Life without
Kulintang music (421KB)
Danny speaks about being a community worker in
the
the degrees he’s earned.
Master Kalanduyan with the Spring 2005
graduating
students of
Message to
Filipinos in Mindanao (620KB)
“Keep and preserve
our own arts, appreciate it.”
Message
to the Filipino American community (1.6MB)
“We are all Filipinos”
Retirement (2.5MB)
Danny plans to continue
promoting the arts as long as he can and travel to and from
the
Music Sample
of the song “Duyog” (1.48MB)
Danny plays the song
“Duyog” on the practice Kulintang called, Sarunay.
“Duyog” played on the Xylophone (1MB)
Danny experimenting with the same song, “Duyog”, on
the xylophone.
Master
Kalanduyan with his interviewers at the SF Asian Art Musuem
Demonstration
for Filipino American History Month, October 27, 2005.
Master Kalanduyan with the
Image Acknowledgements:
Victor and Nikki would like to thank Liza Erpelo for
her wonderful online photo
album collection, as well as Google images for the
great kulintang music and picture sources.
*These audio files may be played with Windows Media Player or Real Player.
To download a free copy of Windows Media Player, click
here.
To download a free
copy of Real Player, click here.
last revised: 12-20-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit
the author
and
cite the source as:
All commercial rights are reserved.
To contact the coordinator, or send
comments or suggestions, email: