LUCENA CITY, Quezon – The Lucena West 1 Elementary School here won seven medals in the junior category of the recent Asian Music Games 2023, a national and international marching band competition in Jember, Indonesia.
TEAM Lucena West 1 Elementary School shows the medals they won in the Asian Music Games 2023 in Jember, Indonesia. (Photo courtesy by Rowena J. Adormeo and Alfred Orbe via Danny Estacio)
The drum and lyre team snatched four group awards – Champion, Concert Percussion; third place, Best in Music; third place, Best in Visual Effect, and third place, drumline.
They also bagged three major awards in the solo category: Second place, percussion (solo snare), Matteo Zarsuela; second place, percussion (solo multi-tom), Zairus Robhert Gliane; and third place, percussion (solo marimba), Gene Caleb Noche.
Team Lucena West 1 Philippines and Lucena West 1 Drum and Lyre Corps bandmaster Alfred Orbe said that the drum and lyre corps originated in the Philippines as an economical alternative to regular brass bands or a drum and bugle corps.
Orbe added the instrumentation of a drum and lyre corps consists of a typical marching band (snare, tenor, bass drums, and cymbals) with the bell lyre section. The lyre sections consist of bell lyres, glockenspiels, as well as vibraphones.
A drum and lyre band is a marching ensemble consisting of strictly percussion instruments and a color guard section.