The Company (vocal group) The Company (vocal group) The Company (stylized as The CompanY) is a vocal group based in the Philippines. Its current members are Moy Ortiz, Annie Quintos, Sweet Plantado, Cecile Bautista and OJ Mariano. The original members of The CompanY were former members of the 1981 and 1983 touring batches of Ateneo College Glee Club (from Ateneo de Manila University). Their musical director, Moy Ortiz, named the group after Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company". The new group focused on contemporary jazz and a cappella music, instead of songs from the classical and traditional choral that they performed under the ACGC. The CompanY
Dumka (musical genre) Dumka (musical genre) Dumka (, "dúmka", plural думки, "dúmky") is a musical term introduced from the Ukrainian language, with cognates in other Slavic languages. The word "dumka" literally means "thought". Originally, it is the diminutive form of the Ukrainian term "duma", pl. "dumy", "a Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) epic ballad … generally thoughtful or melancholic in character". Ukrainian and other Slavic classical composers drew on the harmonic patterns in the folk music of their countries to inform their more formal classical compositions. The composition of dumky became popular after the publication of an ethnological study and analysis and a number of