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 Philippines.

 

Master Danongan Kalanduyan playing a song on the Kulintang.

Our interview with Master Danny Kalanduyan:


1. Introduction
2. Growing up in the Philippines

3. Teaching Kulintang music

4. Performing Kulintang music

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

9. Playing other instruments

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                      

 

     

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Growing up in the Philippines (175KB)

Danny speaks of his childhood and growing up in the region of

                                    Datu Piang in Maguindanao, Philippines.                   

 

 

Map of Maguindanao highlighting Datu Piang.

      

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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.

 

      
    

 

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Performing Kulintang music (139KB)
       
Master Kalanduyan shares his experiences playing and performing Kulintang Music.

 

 

Danny playing Kulintang with PKE performers dancing the Pangalay.

 

 



 

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      Migrating to the United States
(462KB)
       
Danny shares his uncommon story of migration to the United States.

 

 

University of Washington brought over Danny Kalanduyan to teach in the US.

 

 



 

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      Teaching Kulintang music in the US and in the Philippines (752KB)
               
         Danny speaks about the differences between teaching

        in the Philippines and in the US.

 

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. 

 

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Promoting Filipino culture in the United States (557KB)
       
 Danny shares his culture with many different people throughout the US.

                                                  Danny at a Kulintang demonstration.

 

       

 Danny performing with San Francisco State University group, Ating Tao.

 

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     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.

 

 

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     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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

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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 Dragon School of Kali at a demonstration at the

San Francisco Asian Art Museum on October 27, 2005.

 

 

 

 

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Life without Kulintang music (421KB)
      
 Danny speaks about being a community worker in the Philippines and

      the degrees he’s earned.

 

 

Master Kalanduyan with the Spring 2005 graduating

 students of Skyline College at their version of Fil Grad.

 

 

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Message to Filipinos in Mindanao (620KB)
        “Keep and preserve our own arts, appreciate it.”

 

 

 

 

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Message to the Filipino American community (1.6MB)
       “We are all Filipinos” 

                                                                                       

 

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Retirement (2.5MB)
        Danny plans to continue promoting the arts as long as he can and travel to and from

      the Philippines and the US.

 

 

 

 

                              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.

 

 

 

 

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 Master Kalanduyan with the Skyline College Kulintang Ensemble.

 

 

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.

 

           

 

 

 

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last revised: 12-20-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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