Brotherhood sounds came out yesterday afternoon from the interior of the Sacred Chapel of the Savior thanks to a new concert, the penultimate, framed in the first Festival of Religious Music and Brotherhood ‘Ars Sacrum’. A program that will end today Sunday in a city that needed a cycle like this, as it has a very valuable intangible heritage in terms of Easter music.
The recital was presented under the title ‘Evocación a don Victoriano’, a tribute to the teacher, musician and composer Victoriano García Alonso (Játiva, Valencia, 1870 – Úbeda, Jaén, 1933), who had a great influence on the music of the Week Santa ubetense, being the creator of some of its most characteristic sounds. Not surprisingly, his musical production is fundamentally made up of religious pieces that are usually divided into two blocks: the group of works dedicated to the Virgin and the Easter marches for the band, almost all of them funeral marches.
The program was carried out by the Camerata 1910, a recently created formation (September 2020) at the initiative of the former members of the Mediterranean Chamber Orchestra, whose objective is to offer a quality musical and cultural service in Jaén, Granada, Málaga and Seville. It owes its name to a poem by Federico García Lorca from the book ‘Poeta en Nueva York’. And its staff is made up of nineteen excellent string instrumentalists from all over Andalusia, in much of the province of Jaén, who have established their headquarters in Úbeda, where they usually rehearse.
The concert, which was directed by Cristóbal López Gándara, had as a prelude the unmistakable and shocking ‘Miserere’ (1873), flagship of the music of Semana Santa de Úbeda, composed by Victoriano García Hernández de Lersundi, father of the honoree. And later, already by Victoriano García Alonso, they sounded ‘La Expiración’ (1897), ‘El Nazareno’ (1897), ‘El sepulcro’ (1897), ‘Tristeza’ (1904), ‘Las Angustias’ (1906),’ Resurrexit Sicut Dixit (1909), ‘The President is Dead’ (1924) and ‘Hosanna to the Son of God!’ (1929), works that were masterfully performed and arranged chronologically. As an epilogue, the recital ended with ‘María en sus Lágrimas’ (2020), a work composed by Cristóbal López Gándara.
Today, Easter Sunday, will end this first Festival of Religious Music and Brotherhood ‘Ars Sacrum’ that has left so many good moments in recent weeks thanks to the good organization of the Union of Brotherhoods, the City Council of Úbeda and the Philharmonic Society of Our Lady of grace. The latter will be in charge of putting the finishing touch with the Band of Cornets and Drums of María Santísima del Amor, with the concert presented under the name ‘Sinfonías de Pasión’ that will take place at seven in the afternoon before the cover of the Sacred Chapel of the Savior.
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