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The rescue work of Lorca traditions includes, in addition, a concert that will have as a participatory instrument the conch shell, element used in Lorca for decades, and that will be used to recover an unpublished piece by Gómez Navarro dedicated to the Patroness.
The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, together with the President of the Brotherhood of the Virgen de las Huertas, Isabel Jimenez, announced that the patron saint festivities will recover this year one of their ancestral traditions, such as the Bando.
We are talking about an act that was convened as an official and popular convocation of our celebrations on the occasion of the commemoration of the Patron of the city.
Within the work that is developed by the Brotherhood to continue recovering part of the immaterial legacy linked to the festivities, will also recover the announcement of this Bando using an ancestral element that had fallen into oblivion, as is the conch , an element that links the musical with nature itself.
We must remember that the recovery of the Bando is a milestone for which it has been working for several years, with the aim of returning to have an act that took place from the eighteenth century until the 1930s.
The Mayor explained that this act will be held, as scheduled, next September 6 having as its setting the own temple of the Virgen de las Huertas, and will begin at 9:30 p.m.
The event will rescue its usual formulation, combining different pieces of music with brief speeches, with the participation of the Municipal Music Band, which has also wanted to add with its work to the recovery of the immaterial legacy of our parties.
In fact we can anticipate that all the people who attend this event will be able to enjoy a concert in which songs will be performed in which the aforementioned conch will participate as a characteristic element.
These are musical compositions such as the Anthem to Our Lady of the Gardens, Procession March of the Virgen de las Huertas, Gozos a duet, Jota lorquina, Enredás, Parrandas de la Tova, Aurora de Lorca and the Anthem of the City.
Fulgencio Gil has indicated that it is 8 emblematic pieces of Lorca folklore that make reference to the Virgen de las Huertas, as well as an unpublished piece that is going to be presented, as is the case of the Gozos a Duo, a creation dated in the nineteenth century, being authored by Lorca Juan Antonio Gómez Navarro.
We are talking about a prominent composer of our city, born in 1845 ordained priest in 1869 in Ocaña (Toledo), who served as organist between the years 1873-1877 in the Collegiate Church of San Patricio.
In those years he composed a mass and a salve, with three voices and choir accompanied by an orchestra, through which he was awarded the silver medal of the Society of Friends of the Country of Lorca.
He was the first organist and maestro de capilla of the Cathedral of Córdoba between 1877 and 1916, a city that paid tribute by giving his name to one of its streets.
He returned to Lorca in 1921 where he died in 1923.
He composed profane music such as waltzes, zarzuela, rigodones, polkas and a barcarola, as well as other creations for piano, orchestra, band.
It is estimated that he wrote more than 200 works.
Among the sacred music that bequeathed us we have to emphasize an extensive repertoire between Masses, offices of deceased and of angels, prayers, funeral marches and Christmas carols.
In Lorca it is popularly known mainly for composing the Salve to the Virgen de los Dolores, Holder of the Brotherhood of Labradores, Paso Azul.
The Mayor has indicated that the use of conch was usual as an old instrument in Lorca that was played with a specific tone for each issue, as they were floods, alarms, obituaries and popular celebrations, including that of our Patron.
As a legend it was said that its sound away from evil spirits.
Its versatility allowed it to be introduced into the execution of many ancient dances and religious acts, constituting a resource as a wind instrument that offers a sound similar to that of a trumpet.
For its use, it is simply blown from one end, using the interpreter's lips as a double tongue.
They were also used among irrigators to communicate.
It has also been found to be used to accompany some dances and have performed functions in religious ceremonies, which is common in different parts of the world since the Magdalenian culture, 15,000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic), as in the islands of the Pacific, South America and India.
Specifically in our country we can find references in Cantabria and Canary Islands, as well as in Murcia and specifically in Lorca and its municipal area.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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