HAU celebrates the 1st Angeles City Chorale Festival

The First Angeles City Chorale Festival which featured the works of Professor Eudenice V. Palaruan, one of the Philippines' most esteemed classical musicians, took place last August 2, 2014 at Holy Angel University. Eudenice Palaruan has been widely known in the choral music industry for exhibiting great passion towards his chosen field. He was an instructor at the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music where he taught Music Theory, Choral conducting, Liturgical Text Composition and Voice. He was also the music director of AILM ASIAN Ensemble, presenting an all-ASIAN choral works.
The participating choral groups of the said festival came from different parts of Luzon including Bataan Peninsula Chamber Singers (Bataan), Central Luzon State University Maestro Singers (Nueva Ecija), Divine Majesty Male Choir (Pampanga), Koro Santa Lucia (Pampanga), Maryknoll Sanctuary Choir (Baguio) and Urdaneta City University Music Ensemble (Pangasinan).
With utmost talent, confidence, and insurmountable efforts of the participants, the festival has been successfully celebrated. Indeed, angelic voices have reached the heaven once again.

HAU Chorale bags Gold 3 in Singapore

The Holy Angel University (HAU) Chorale, together with the Tarlac Chamber Choir, won an International award Gold 3 in the Mixed Choir Competition during the Singapore International Chorale Festival, Celebrating Cultural Diversity Orientale Concentus VII last July 9-13 at the School of the Arts (SOTA) Singapore.
The current edition of this festival attracted close to 2000 participants from 40 to 50 choirs around the world. The Chorale Competition seeks to raise social awareness and promotes civic mindedness among the youth participants.
Orientale Concentus, conceptualized in 2008 with the purpose of promoting youth choral music development and international arts and cultural exchange, has seen a successful run across China, Taiwan and South Korea. Participants in the earlier editions not only hail from host countries, but also from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and even United Kingdom.

BRING THE SAINTS BACK TO HALLOWEEN

Holy Angel University, the biggest Catholic school in the region, will celebrate Halloween this year with a unique twist: instead of vampires, demons and ghosts, participants will wear saints’ costumes.

When the University first held a similar event in 2012, it became the banner photo of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. 

According to Robby Tantingco, Vice President for External Affairs, the event is part of the University’s advocacy to promote a more Catholic celebration of Halloween.

“The original intent of Halloween was to celebrate the saints, not the devils because it’s the night before All Saints Day,” Tantingco says. “Halloween is short for Hallows’ Eve, and hallows is old English for saints.
Somehow we allowed the dark spirits to take over the themes and images of the celebration of what is supposedly a Catholic holy day.”
More than 600 pre-school and grade school pupils of the University’s Basic Education Department are expected to participate in the annual event. The Center for Kapampangan Studies and the Institute for Christian Formation will also add other spiritual and cultural elements to the celebration, like distributing estampitas (prayer cards) and singing gosu, the traditional Kapampangan hymns to saints.