In 1961, following an international summer tour with the Filipinescas Dance Troupe Rosendo left his native Philippines to pursue graduate studies in Music Composition at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
 While engaged in his studies, Rosendo had found opportunities to promote his work, as well as perform. One occasion was captured in this photograph at the World Premier performance of a composition featured by the 200-member All-South Jersey High School Symphony and Chorus at the Moorestown High School in January 1963. Shown procuring autographs from Rosendo are two members of the South Jersey Orchestra, Ann Barrett on the far left, and recognized French Horn player Kendall Betts on the far right. To the immediate left of Rosendo is Clarence W. Miller, conductor of the Choral Concert, and to his immediate right is Russell Stanger, then Associate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who conducted the South Jersey Orchestra.
 Rosendo also was invited to act in the 1962/63 season of the flagship American theater Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
 In 1964, he transferred to West Virginia University to continue pursuit of his Ph. D, and met and later married Harriet Clendenin. After completing his formal studies in 1965, he accepted a position as Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
One of his proudest moments, Rosendo officially was awarded his citizenship to the United States in 1967.
In 1968, he accepted a position on the faculty of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and would remain there until his death in 1994. |
