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Holy Week with the feast of Corpus Christi and Christmas, were the dates of greater representation within the liturgical calendar.
Responsories of Darkness 'Officium Sanctae Hebdomadae' are regarded as musical monument to the Catholic Liturgy of Holy Week.
The Catholic Ritual Dark responsories divided in three days that correspond to Thursday, Friday and Holy Saturday, known as the Triduum Sacrum.
The Cathedral Choir Francisco Zabala even pretend to bring this jewel of the sixteenth century to the sensitivity of the XXI century man forgot to remove from the staging of the Triduum Sacrum reinterpreted in a single day three that originally composed these responsories.
The songs, sounds and candlelight recreates the scenic effects in the Golden interpreted the Passion and Death of Jesus.
Under the musical direction of Alfonso Martínez Bernal and stage direction by José Antonio Orta Cayuela, the choir will perform these responsories california Tomás Luis de Victoria on Friday March 27 at 22 am in Our Lady of Grace Church.
These compositions were sung at the dawn of the day when even the darkness invaded the great ships of the Cathedral.
The Responsorial itself not from the Gregorian and polyphonic a form of escepcional bill.
Speaking of Easter Responsorial is talking about the figure and work of one of the most famous composers of the Golden Age and the only one who addressed this topic.
Tomás Luis de Victoria, born in Avila, live long in Rome working alongside the great master Palestrina, returning to Madrid and as Master of the Convent of the Nuns from 1587 until his death in 1611.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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