when life is unfair

(Note: I just lost my most recent post and I had thought that blogger saves our drafts automatically. But i think google should investigate why all the paragraphs i have written are now all gone.)



That ballad, "Ordinary Song" is very engaging. I seldom hear it on the radio but when I do it seems to be automatically tuned in to my emotional state at that moment when I find life to be so unfair. In fact, there is a line in the song that says something like this, "When life seems so unfair, I will be there, singing this "ordinary song" to you.

Many of the Philippine songs could have been composed for some kind of romantic settings. I have composed some but they contain lyrics about the environment and talking about the lives of the urban poor and of women. I cannot get them to be aired on the radio because they sound too radical. However, I was able to present them over the Sunday Concert at the Park in Luneta for 45 minutes in the 90's. I was surprised to know from the production coordinator, Gie Arnold, a widow, that the show was well-watched by music students.

What happens to artistic works like these is that they get to be shown publicly but only through concerted efforts of some government institutions like the National Parks Development committee in bringing culture to the masses. Someday, when things are all right, perhaps, we will have daily presentations at the Luneta Park geared towards showcasing the works of Pilipino artists and
composers. We can dream, can't we?