Manuel L. Quezon III

1896 The Musical
My unauthorized and incompetent translation of the Libretto by
Carlos de la Paz, Jr.*
“A life that is not devoted to a great and sacred purpose is like a tree without shade, and is instead merely like worthless grass.”
– First part of the Kartilya of the Katipunan by Emilio Jacinto
“Now is the time to begin the revelation of valuable and noble teachings.”
-Andres Bonifacio,
“What the Tagalogs should know”
*(First, see synopsis in the liner notes; note that this translation is incompetent because too much of it is literal …