Jose Zapanta Monteyro “Don Pepe”, a Portuguese who came to the Philippines with his family as a young boy; later married a Filipina from Pampanga. He was a tenor-baritone & performed in the Philippines Teatro Zorilla; became the band master of the Filipino orchestra @ S.S. President Cleveland late 1920s & mid 1930s; Col Romy Monteyro recalls that his father has a photo w/the Statue of Liberty in the background. Don Pepe also fought w/ the Spanish Army during Philippine Revolution while Lorenzo, his older brother & Panfilo, his younger brother fought w/ the Filipino revolutionaries. The three brothers sided w/ the Filipinos in Gen Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary Army during the Philippine American War.

More on S.S. President Cleveland built in 1921 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. for American President Lines; operated as a passenger liner; chartered by the US Army in 7/1941; renamed USAT Tasker H. Bliss; transferred to the US Navy, 8/19/1942; commissioned, USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP-42) 9/15/1942; during World War II was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the campaign; sunk by enemy torpedo attack 11/12/1942, at Fedhala Morocco

Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t2/tanker_h_bliss.htm

Pedro B. Navarro born Bacarra Ilocos Norte notes under Julian Sales

Ne Pomoceno Filipino Quartet. (1917). Of Nepomoceno, S. Damalario & Mrs Damalario; B. Del Rosario

Sources: University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department Iowa City, IA

http://filammuse.blogspot.com

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iauchau./nepomoceno/1

http://memory.loc.gov

Basilio Nuesca notes under Francisco Asis

Philippine Constabulary Band & Col Walter Loving

Excerpts An Observer in the Philippines, or, Life in Our New Possessions by John Bancroft Devins; American Tract Society; Boston; New York 1905

“With the Filipinos music is well-nigh a passion. Every town, village and hamlet has a band, and it is claimed that the best military band in the Philippines is a native one led by a N….(African American). Two or three times a week the Constabulary band, under the direction of Lieutenant Loving, plays on the Luneta. The native bands have rude instruments, many of them made of bamboo. The story is told of a Filipino sailor who, with a flute improvised from a bit of piping, the holes punched with a red- hot skewer, could play an extraordinary range of airs and variations in perfect tune and with much artistic feeling”

Source: http://www.history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH64(W).pdf

Roger D Cunningham, “The Loving Touch": Walter H. Loving's Five Decades of Military Music." Army History 64 (Summer 2007): 4-25.
RG015/RG029/RG094/RG165

The first of the public concerts that Nellie Taft began was held on 4/17/1909 and included international music as well as American. The President, Cabinet members, society figures drove to the event in their cars while thousands of members of the public walked or took streetcars. Furthermore, the Filipino Constabulary Band, which she had helped to create while in the Philippines, performed. This band was composed of native Filipinos, and was conducted by a friend of the First Lady, African-American composer and musician Walter Loving

(PC Band was founded 10/15/1902 & participated in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, 1915 Panama Canal Exposition, 1937 Golden Gate International Exposition & played during the 1909 inauguration of US President William Howard Taft; the band was reorganized in 1946 and transferred to the Philippine Army led by Col. Antonino Buenaventura, 1988 National Artist for Music)

Pedro Ragzag born 1867 Philippines; left Honolulu 5/8/1895; arrived San Francisco 5/13/1895 with Faustino Rivamonte & a group of touring Hawaiian musicians via SS Australia; occupation: musician; passenger #12; marital status: single; never been to U.S. before this trip

Source: http://immigrantships.net

Faustino Rivamonte born 1867 Philippines; left Honolulu 5/8/1895; arrived San Francisco 5/13/1895 with Pedro Ragzag & a group of touring Hawaiian musicians via SS Australia; occupation: musician; passenger #44; marital status: single; never been to U.S. before this trip

Source: http://immigrantships.net

Lazaro Salamanca; born 1866 Philippines; immigrated 1889; occupation musician band

Sources: 1910 Honolulu Hawaii Census divorced; living w/ daughter Matilda (born 1897 Hawaii; mother born Portugal)

1920 Honolulu Hawaii Census living w/ daughter Matilda & Rosalia (born 1889 Hawaii)

http://library.thinkquest.org/J003466/filipino/entertainers.htm “w/a band of 12 adventurous musicians & acrobats who arr in 1888 on a clipper ship from Peking; elected to stay w/ Jose Leborino, Francisco de los Santos & Geronimo Inocinio; joined the Royal Hawaiian Band & played for King Kalakaua & queen Liliuokalani. They remained w/ the band even after the overthrow of the monarchy”

http://www.familysearch.org died 7/7/1936; son of Tranquilino & Clotilde (Corcuera); married 10/31/1917 Honolulu Hawaii; wife-Rosalia (died 5/25/1936 daughter of Samuel Kaaumoana & Kamoelani Aki)

another source (unable to locate this-notes by M.E. Embry) Honolulu Star Bulletin 5/15/1935 page 3 by Cariaga (Okamura 1983:85) “from Manila decided to stay in Honolulu following a salary dispute w/ their manager”

Julian Dacuycuy Sales born in Bacarra Ilocos Norte; set to music the Ilocano song Pamulinawen (Ilocano Maiden) w/ the lyrics written by Isidro Castro. The song won the contest @ the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 for the Philippine Constabulary Band, conducted by Col. Loving and by his assistant Capt. Pedro B. Navarro. Pamulinawen is the theme song of the PC Band & a festival .to honor it is held every 10^th of February in Laoag Ilocos Norte. Navarro, Castro and were all Bacarreños.

Source: http://www.bacarra.gov.ph written by Cpt Primitivo Sales, son of Julian Sales & grdson of Isidro Castro

Modesto Ceriales Salve born 8/23/1900 Philippines; died 11/14/1992 Aiea Honolulu; played @ Mckinley High School & University of Hawaii school band in the 1920s; later conducted a senior citizens’ string band in Honolulu; the 1^st Filipino to graduate from a public school in Honolulu (24 yrs old @ graduation); immigrated to Hawaii in 1920; supporter of the 1924 Filipino Sugar Strike; father of Alita Guieb Salve (Arkin), professional singer & entertainer in Hawaii

Source http://www.musicianshawaii.com/alita_salve.htm

website for Musicians’ Association of Hawaii Local 677

Source: www.efilarchives.org/publications/filipinosinhawaii75.htm

Augusto Samaniego member of the Philippine Constabulary Band as  a conductor and played the saxophone under Col Walter Loving. They participated in the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in Treasure Island in San Francisco; was also the conductor of the Magdalo Concert Band

maternal grandfather of Maestro Robert Shroder, California musical conductor, director & former principal flutist of the Manila Symphony Orchestra

Source 10/15/2008 Cynthia De Castro AJ Press Maestro Robert Shroder: Extraordinary Pinoy

Francisco Taberner notes under Francisco Asis

E. Tavora notes under Louis Biason

Ginny Tiu born 1948 Binondo Manila appeared as a child pianist prodigy @ Sullivan show; with siblings-Elizabeth & Alexander acted in Elvis Presley's movie "Girls,Girls";later performed @ Sheraton Moana, Hawaii; sister of Vicky Cayetano, former 1st lady of Hawaii

http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/July-2006/History-Hawaiaias-Sakada-Soldiers

History: Hawai’i’s Sakada Soldiers

Not all of Hawai’i’s earliest Filipino immigrants came to work on plantations.

Ronna Bolante

Anastacio Daguio can’t even count how many times he’s been asked what plantation he grew up on. As a 72-year-old Wahiawa-born Filipino, he can understand why locals usually make that assumption.

“I say, ‘No plantation. My father was a soldier,’” Daguio says. “They say, ‘Nah, can’t be,’ because everybody who came to Hawai‘i back then worked in the field.”

This year, Hawai‘i celebrates the 100th anniversary of Filipino immigration to the Islands, marked by the arrivals of the first sakadas, or Filipino plantation workers, in 1906. In the first half of the 20th century, these laborers and their families made up nearly all of the thousands of Filipinos who immigrated to Hawai‘i. But lesser known is the story of about 100 Filipino soldiers who came to the Islands in the mid-1920s for a different purpose.

These soldiers were Philippine Scouts, a military unit created in 1901 to bolster U.S. forces in the Philippines. After World War I, Congress approved the induction of 6,000 of these soldiers into the U.S. Army. In the mid-1920s, around 100 Scouts, including Daguio’s father, Eugenio, were assigned to Hawai‘i and, in most cases, stationed at Schofield Barracks as part of the Army’s Hawaiian Division.

The Army didn’t bring these soldiers to Hawai‘i strictly for their military experience, Daguio says. “They were soldiers first, but they were recruited especially because they were good musicians and cooks,” he says. At Schofield Barracks, each of these soldiers was assigned to one of eight regimental bands, performing at military ceremonies and athletic events. Many of these musicians did double-duty in the kitchen, cooking meals for the troops.

Single Filipino soldiers lived in the barracks with the general population, while most soldiers with families lived in Castner Village—a cluster of wooden houses near Wheeler Army Air Field—located at least a mile away from other families on base.

“Castner Village actually was a Filipino barrio,” says former Castner resident Phil Soriano, whose father, the late Cpl. Galo Soriano, was a Philippine Scout. “Were we segregated? I think so, because there was not a single puti (white person) within a mile of us. To me, though, it was a blessing in disguise, because I learned about my Filipino culture.”

Daguio agrees, noting that Ilocano was the primary language spoken in the village. “It didn’t really occur to us that we were segregated, because we felt comfortable being among our ethnic group,” he says. “We had Filipino parties, where men wore barong Tagalog (formal dress for men in the Philippines), women wore Filipino dresses. Of course, our fathers were all musicians, so they played in a combined band and just jived together. They also made time to teach us kids music.”

Today, there are few tangible reminders of this little-known piece of Filipino history in the Islands. In the early 1940s, the regimental bands were disbanded when the Hawaiian Division was reorganized into the 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions and, by the late 1950s, nearly all of these soldiers had retired—most of them with at least 30 years of service.

At the onset of World War II, residents of Castner Village were relocated to other quarters or chose to live outside of Schofield. The village’s wooden houses were eventually torn down, replaced by a public park.

There are no known surviving soldiers today, Daguio says, but their story should be preserved. The achievements of these men continued long after they retired from the U.S. Army. About a dozen of them became members of the Royal Hawaiian Band; another dozen joined the Honolulu Symphony, including Soriano’s father, who played the French horn. Many of their children and grandchildren also contributed to Hawai‘i’s music scene. Daguio, for instance, also played with the Royal Hawaiian Band. Renowned pianist Rene Paulo is the grandson of one of these soldiers.

In additional to musical talent, patriotism also ran in these soldiers’ families.

“I’d say about 90 percent of the male offspring of these soldiers served in the U.S. military, some of them in their tenure becoming the highest ranking soldiers of Filipino ancestry in the U.S. Army, including Tony Ventura—the first American of Filipino ancestry to command an entire battalion,” says Soriano, a retired colonel himself.

This month, these soldiers will be honored with all Filipino-American veterans at the Filipino-American Friendship Day Dinner. The July 5 celebration will also feature a photo exhibit coordinated by Daguio and Ben Acohido, chairman of the Wahiawa Neighborhood Board, who has known Daguio and Soriano since childhood.

“The story of these soldiers and families is unique—their military, social and cultural contributions to Hawai‘i,” says Acohido, who has come to call this obscure group of Filipino arrivals “sakada soldiers.” “We just want to make sure that this story is told.

PAMULINAWEN

Pamulinawen

Pusok indengam man

Toy umas-asug

Agrayod'ta sadiam.

Panunotem man

Dika pagintutulngan

Toy agayat, agruknoy dita dennam.

Essem nga diak malipatan

Ta nasudi unay a nagan,

Uray sadin ti ayan,

Disso sadino man,

Aw-awagan a di agsarday

Ta naganmo a kasam-itan.

No malagipka, pusok ti mabang-aran.

SARUNG BANGGI

Sarung Banggi

Sa higdaan

Nakadangog ako

Hinuni nin sarung gamgam

Sa luba ko katurugan

Bako kundi simong tingog

Iyo palan

Dagos ako bangon

Si sakuyang mata

Iminuklat

Kadtung kadikluman

Ako ay nagalagkalag

Kasu ihiling ko si

Sakuyang mata

Sa itaas

Simong lawog

Nahiling ko maliwanag.

Kadtung kadikloman

Kan mahiling taka

Mamundo kong puso

Tolos na nag-ogma

Minsan di nahaloy

Idtong napagmasdan

Sagkod nuarin pa man

Dai ko malilingawan.

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