Talk:Arnold Zamora
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[edit] WP:DYK submission
Did you know
- ...that Arnold Zamora, a Filipino musician, is not only well-known nationally as a singer, composer, arranger, conductor, and founder the Chorus Paulinus, but also works for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, USA?
--Pinay (talk•email) 10:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- ...that Arnold Zamora, a Filipino musician, is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran? --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 01:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] spell check by User:Chris the speller
The biggest change was putting songs and singles in quotes instead of italics. See WP:MOS-T for details. They'll get you for stuff like that. (While in the realm of nit-picking, your talk page has "Respect other peoples views", which is lacking an apostrophe.) :-) You might want to go over the Career and Notable choral arrangements sections, as I could not in all cases be sure which were songs and which were albums. I changed a phrase to <<Theme Song of Loboc Children’s Choir>>, as Loboc Children’s Choir doesn't seem to need any markup; it would get italics if it were the theme song of a weekly TV show named Loboc Children’s Choir. Some sections seemed a little heavy on capitalization; e.g. <<"Nanay at Tatay", Words and Music: Arnold Zamora>> might be better as <<"Nanay at Tatay", words and music: Arnold Zamora>>, but I leave that up to you. Chris the speller 17:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Re Arnold Zamora - Thanks as always. I will remember. Most likely, you will find exactly the same errors in Chorus Paulinus. I just know it. --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 17:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits to Arnold Zamora
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- Hello! In line with this - If you click on this link, it will show you 2 works arranged by Fr. Arnold Zamora, which can definitely show verifiability of his works/arrangement. There is absolutely no way we can use the link in wiki assuming good faith? --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 06:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The 'karaoke' parish
THE "bedroom communities" of south San Francisco, San Bruno and most famously, Daly City, are known as Filipino enclaves in the Bay Area, cities that are home to so many Filipino-American families that one can hear Filipino spoken on the streets. Strip malls are lined with establishments bearing such familiar names and logos as Goldilocks, Max's Chicken, Barrio Fiesta and Jollibee, or signs that hark back to home, like Ongpin, Manila Barbecue and Fiesta Filipino. So "Pinoy" [Filipino] is the area that homegrown comic Rex Navarette jokes that "the fog you see over Daly City is not really fog, it's the steam rising from all the rice cookers opened at dinner time."
Well, it seems only right then that the area should be served by a most quintessentially Filipino parish, where community and communal sharing are nurtured just as much as music and song.
What I know about Saint Augustine Parish in South San Francisco I know mainly through relatives, through my cousin Buddy Braganza and his wife Mila (Buddy is the immediate past president of the parish council), and my late uncle and aunt, Salvador and Luz Braganza who in their retirement in the US had made Saint Augustine their second home and the focus of their energies. Links to Saint Augustine were further strengthened with the marriage of my friend Maloy Ramos to Vic Barrairo, who, it happened, knew the Braganzas well through his sister, Sister Nona Barrairo, SFCC, Saint Augustine's coordinator for youth and parish activities.
"The singing priests" is how Maloy first described to me the pastors of Saint Augustine, led by parish priest Father Eugene Tungol and his assistants, Father Jun Ligtas and Father Manuel Curso, who are inclined to sing their way through Mass or break into song at the slightest excuse. One Sunday while I was visiting, Mass goers were all agog at the news that Father Eugene himself had acted as "cantor," or song leader, at a morning Mass.
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WITH SUCH song-loving shepherds, it's no wonder that Saint Augustine's flock should themselves be musical devotees. There are no less than seven choirs in the parish, who divide the Sunday Mass chores among themselves, and a corps of young male and female cantors.
Truly, the musical talent that abounds in Saint Augustine's parish is astounding, and it was only inevitable that this prodigious talent be put on display in a concert.
Dubbed "Hope, Peace and Love...through Music," the performance featured the Music Ministries of Saint Augustine, from the "Children's Choir" to even "The Singing Staff," as well as "Three Generations" of singing priests, including a visiting talent in the person of Father Arnold Zamora who serves in a nearby parish. In between the choir numbers were performances by young singers in the parish: Dana Soliman, Grace Padilla, Christine Adiaz and Kristine Siajon. The "Valera Family Choir," which performs on social occasions and some of whose members belong to church choirs, too, contributed their share through a most moving rendition of "The Prayer," performed by Dan Valera and his 10-year-old daughter Danielle.
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WHEN we arrived at the church the evening of the concert, we found an eager crowd massed at the entrance, shivering as much in anticipation as from the icy winds that keep the area in perpetually chilly weather.
Special guests were Senator Nene Pimentel, his wife Bing and some family members, all of whom had driven all the way from Los Angeles for the concert as well as to address a forum of Filipino-Americans and local officials -- and to talk about the absentee voting law, of course.
Still, there was no cause for apprehension on the performers' part. Though mostly amateurs, they did themselves proud, singing with all energy and dedication, honed by months of practice at the hands of Sister Nona and of Vincent Satuito, a trained conductor and chorale master who volunteered to whip the various choirs into shape.
Though there were religious numbers aplenty, including a most impressive piece by Handel performed by the Saint Augustine Chorale (of which my cousin Mila is a member), there was room for more "pop" sensibilities, too. All the soloists performed ballads and the Men's Choir brought the house down with a medley of love songs that showed, as I whispered to my sister, that "all those nights at karaoke joints are finally paying off."
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SAINT Augustine's image as a "karaoke parish" was underscored by the "Three Generations" of priests, so-called because Father Eugene, back in a minor seminary in Bohol province, had Father Arnold as his student in high school while Father Jun was only in elementary.Upon their entrance, the three pastors were roundly applauded, and even their glitches and memory lapses were forgiven readily, if a bit loudly. When he forgot some lines from "I Will Be Here," Father Eugene ad-libbed that he did so deliberately, "to see how you would react." To which Father Arnold quipped: "Lines you can forget, but you never forget the second collection!" Imagine, these pastors are not just singers, they're standup comics, too!
Because most of the priests assigned to Saint Augustine hail from Bohol and thus speak Filipino with a strong accent, it's rare to hear a Mass said in Filipino, or even some Filipino Mass songs. Although I must note that there are Mass songs in Spanish, in acknowledgment of the Latino members of the community.
But in all other ways Saint Augustine is typically Filipino, with distance from home and the search for identity perhaps drawing parishioners closer than they would otherwise be back here. As the show drew to a close, I knew that more than the music, it's the sense of belonging to a family that makes Saint Augustine a home for Filipinos, resident or otherwise.
From: by Rina Jimenez David. The Philippine Daily Inquirer June 28, 2003 [www.inq7.net/opi/2003/jun/28/opi_rjdavid-1.htm] --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 17:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pinay06 (talk • contribs) 17:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC).
