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I put to this musical meditation some festival and sacrificial character at the same time. It was a jewish ritual of purification after the conception and pregnancy where they sacrificed two turtledoves or even a lamb in holocaust. Mary and Joseph took the child with them to the temple, which was not a must, and somehow there is a prefiguration here of the future sacrifice of Jesus (lamb) in the cross. We have to sacrifice ourselves and set fire to our inner demons in holocaust to get purified. That is why I’ve put a sacrificial character to this piece.

There are two more relevant persons in this event, Anna and Simeon. Simeon, who was aware that little chid was divine and took him in his arms all happy. And all happy and in peace he left having seen Jesus and his divinity with his eyes. In the same manner we should be happy when we see Jesus with out interior eyes and hug him with our interior arms. That is why I put a happy character to this musical meditation too, besides the sacrificial. Anna was an elder prophetic woman that told everyone that child was divine and made a lot of prayers in the temple for Jesus. She was always in prayer, the same way we should be always in prayer so that being aware of Jesus in our heart.

In this piece I made a repetitive base with four voices, each one representing Mary, Joseph, Simeon and Anna, they all together interacting in this act of purification, each of them i their own way. Over them there is a melody repeated with different voices which represent the divine presence of Jesus intermingled with the offering of the others.The repetitive base of voices remark the ritualistic aspect of the event.

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from Meditationes Vitae Christi I -Generation and Childhood Of Christ-, released March 5, 2017

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Alvaro Barcala Madrid, Spain

Artist and composer. Barcala bases his compositions mostly on the piano, going through a range of sounds from post- classical, ambient and experimental.

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