Maxelende Ganade

Education

She graduated her elementary and high school at Holy Spirit Tagbilaran City. She took Bachelor of Music from the College of the Holy Spirit in Manila and she had rendered performances, helped in musical shows and had written compositions.

Career

She composed the or Bohol Hymn which is the official provincial hymn of the province of Bohol, Philippines. Ganade’s repertoire as an orchestral soloist ranges from the classical repertoire of Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic literature of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Rachmaninoff to the modern works of Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Bartók. lieutenant was during the administration of then Governor Lino Chatto that the provincial government of Bohol undertook the initiative to formally identify the provincial symbols and seals, including the Bohol flag and hymn.

Justino "Ning" Romea, a writer of the Bohol Chronicle and composer of the RPC Song (now the UB Hymn) and the Bohol Provincial School of Nursing Hymn, was commissioned to pen the Bohol Provincial Hymn.

lieutenant was first sung publicly by a female choir of the College of Holy Spirit of Tagbilaran on March 1, 1970 in time for the unfurling of the Bohol Flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1970 East Visayan Athletic Association held in Tagbilaran City. On September 24, 1970, the Provincial Board passed Resolution Number.

215 adopting it as the official song of the province of Bohol. As the hymn"s original version was in English, the Provincial Board, a few years after, endeavored to have it translated into the vernacular.

With some modifications by the Board of Judges in consultation with the authorities in music authorities Mistress

Enriquita Borja-Butalid and Mistress Maria Fe Rocha-Lumayag, then Division Supervisor and music consultant, the Boholano version was adopted by the Provincial Board in Resolution Number. 151 dated September 13, 1974.

While the lyrics and music of the Bohol Hymn (English version) is credited to Romea, the (Boholano version) is largely attributed to Ganade.

Ganade also composed the Carmen hymn and other hymns in school and special affairs Ganade is teaching piano lessons at the Holy Spirit School in Tagbilaran City, a job she has been doing for many years now.

She can play the province"s old pipe organs and marimba during cultural affairs (Lyrics in Boholano)Yuta kong minahalHatag ni BathalaSa adlaw"g gabiiTaknang tananDinasig sakinaiyahanSa mga bayani yutawhanImong kalinaw giampinganLungsod sa bungtod nga matunhawUg matam-is nga kinampay

Puti ang kabaybayonanWalog sa suba binisbisanBahandi ang dagat ug kapataganGugma ang tuburanSa kagawasan sa tananPanalanginan kaIhalad ko lawas ug kalagSa mutya ko"ng Bohol <br>

Bohol Hymn

(English version)

This is the land I love,

The land God gave to me,

Caressed by the sun,

Bathed by the sea,

And kissed by the cool breeze

Night and day.

Here’s where the early heroes lived,

Here’s where they wrought peace and here they bled,

Here rise the marvelous cone-shaped hills,

Here sweet kinampay grows.

Blessed with white sandy beaches,

Rivers that water valleys,

Seas teem with fish and cows graze

on the plains,

In every home love reigns,

God keep my homeland always free,

Let her forever be,

I pledge my strength, my heart and soul,

To my dear home, Bohol.

Achievements

• A competition was launched and the entry of Maxelende Ganade emerged as the best and was adjudged the winner.