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2010, November 10.  National Stamp Collecting Month

National Artists of the Philippines

Litho Offset.  Amstar Company, Inc.  Perf. 14.

Se-tenant Blocks of 4, Miniature Sheets of 16;  Souvenir Sheets of 3

              

 

 Se-tenant Blocks of Four  (25,000)

   7p   Levi Celerio (Music)

   7p   Leonor Orosa Goquingco (Dance)

   7p   Carlos L. Quirino (Historical Literature)

   7p   Nick Joaquin (Literature)



Miniature Sheets of 16  (6,250)

Souvenir Sheets of Three  (5,000)

   7p x 3  Fernando Poe, Jr. (Films) 

 

Designers: Jesus Alfredo D. Delos Santos, Reynaldo Baylon (OJTrainee), John Paul Patetico (OJTrainee)

Lay out Artist (Souvenir Sheet): Victorino Z. Serevo

Design Coordinators: Jimmy Ang, Dr. Ngo Tiong Tak, Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares, Elenita D.L. San Diego

 

 

First Day Covers:  Manila

 

  

               

2010 National Stamp Collecting Month Featuring National Artists:

FERNANDO POE, JR. - FILM.  Filipino actor and cultural icon. From the 1950s, Poe played steadfast film heroes who fight for the common man, which won him respect and admiration. He did not complete high school but went on to win numerous awards and prizes as an actor and film director. During the latter part of his career, he ran an unsuccessful bid for President of the Philippines in the 2004 presidential election against the former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.  He was honored on May 24, 2006 as Philippine National Artist through Philippine Proclamation No. 1065.  In 1965, he shared the lead in The Ravagers, a film depicting the United States and the Philippines working together against Japanese war time occupation. The film is considered one of the most influential Filipino films, and it helped establish Fernando Poe, Jr.'s status as a movie icon.  Poe became an award-winning actor and garnered the most best actor awards at the FAMAS. Among the movies that received awards were Mga Alabok ng Lupa (1967), Asedillo (1971), Durugin si Totoy Bato, Umpisahan Mo, Tatapusin Ko (1983), and Muslim Magnum .357 (1987)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Poe,_Jr.)

LEVI CELERIO - MUSIC.  Filipino composer and lyricist, born on April 30, 1910 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. He received a free education to the Academy of Music in Manila and became the youngest affiliate of the Manila Symphony Orchestra. He was a creative songwriter, with more than 4,000 songs to his acclaim including Filipino folk, Christmas, and love songs that are popular pieces, which many consider to be immortal.  Famous for being a lyricist, his songs treasure life; express nationalistic sentiments and complete grand philosophies. At one instance or another, no Filipino can miss the song or lyrics of Levi's Christmas songs namely Pasko na Naman, Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, and Misa de Gallo.  He is probably best recognized for being a leaf-player, an achievement where he was place into the Guinness Book of World Records. (http://www.famousfilipino.com/composers-and-singers/levi-celerio.html)

LEONOR OROSA GOQUINGCO - DANCE.  Filipino national artist in creative dance. She could play the piano, draw, design scenery and costumes, sculpt, act, direct, dance and choreograph. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics. In 1939, Leonor was the only dancer sent on the first cultural mission to Japan, at the age of 19. She produced Circling the Globe (1939) and Dance Panorama in the same year. She created The Elements in 1940, the first ballet choreographed by a Filipino to commissioned music. She also created Sports during the same year, featuring cheerleaders, a tennis match and a basketball game. The first Philippine folkloric ballet, Trend: Return to the Native, was choreographed by Goquingco in 1941. After the Second World War, she organized the Philippine Ballet and brought the famous Filipino novel, Noli Me Tangere, to life. The Noli Dance Suite consisted of several dances. Maria Clara and the Leper, Salome and Elias, Sisa, Asalto for Maria Clara and The Gossips are some of the dances found in the Noli Dance Suite.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Orosa-Goquinco)

CARLOS L. QUIRINO - HISTORICAL LITERATURE.  Prominent historian and writer. He is a National Artist for Historical Literature. He was also the first Filipino correspondent for the United Press Institute.  Quirino was one of the pioneers of the genre of historical literature in English. He was also renowned for his many biographies of important Filipinos. In particular, he is known for having written one of the earliest biographies in English of Jose Rizal, entitled, The Great Malayan. His books and articles covered and captured many aspects of Philippine history and culture. In 1997, President Fidel V. Ramos added historical literature as a new category in the National Artist Awards and Quirino was its first recipient. His pathbreaking books on cartography, Philippine Cartography (1959) and Maps and Views of Old Maynila,  are still considered as the best books on the subject. His other books include Quezon, Man of Destiny, Magsaysay of the Philippines, Lives of the Philippine Presidents, The History of Philippine Sugar Industry, Filipinos at War: The Fight for Freedom from Mactan to EDSA. He was the brains behind the monumental Filipiniana Book Guild, a 28-volume project dedicated to publishing classic Philippine books. (http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Carlos_Quirino)

NICK JOAQUIN - LITERATURE.  Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels. He was also one of the National Artists of the Philippines for Literature. After winning a Dominican Order-sponsored nationwide essay competition for La Naval de Manila, the University of Santo Tomas awarded Joaquín an honorary Associate in Arts (A.A.) and a scholarship to St. Albert's College, the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong. However, he dropped out after only a year. Upon his return to the Philippines, he joined the Philippines Free Press, starting as a proofreader. Soon this two-time dropout was being noticed for his poems, stories and plays, as well as his journalism under the pen name Quijano de Manila. His journalism was markedly both intellectual and provocative, an unknown genre in the Philippines at that time, raising the level of reportage in the country.  Joaquín deeply admired José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. Joaquín paid tribute to Rizal by way of books such as The Storyteller's New Medium - Rizal in Saga, The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal and A Question of Heroes: Essays in Criticism on Ten Key Figures of Philippine History. He also translated the hero's valedictory poem, "Land That I Love, Farewell!" (http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Nick_Joaquin)

 

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