In the funeral marches there are multiple stories and legends. When the devotee charger receives his turn to carry on his image of devotion, he sees the number on duty that corresponds to him, the exact address, and immediately searches the funeral marches program. The funeral march that will be interpreted in its turn will be a special moment to take the image of its devotion on shoulders.
Walter Izeppi Ramírez, a national musician and composer, in charge of processional bands indicates that each march has an origin. Some could have been composed as a special thanks, for a miracle received, an allegory or adornment of the processional Anda, a moment of faith, experiences or anecdotes, for a disease, or the death of a loved one or a friend, or for special reasons such as biblical characters, by an ephemeris as well.
In the case of A tear It is a piece that is interpreted regularly at the exit of the procession of Jesus of Candelaria, on Holy Thursday. It is the work of the pianist teacher Manuel Moraga Cospín, a civil musician who was born on July 12, 1860 and died on October 24, 1924.
The Candelaria website describes that Moraga was composer author of more than 100 works of different types of the majority lost, such as school theatrical pieces, sacral music, hymns and piano pieces, according to research conducted by Mr. Edgar Cabnal.
How was the march of A tear?
The march, A tear He has a particular story because, probably, in his origin, he was not dedicated to Jesus of Candelaria, but his birth intertwined it.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Master Moraga was in the Candelaria temple when the procession was about to leave. At the time of seeing the image come out, a tear arose from him, a name that inspired his piece.
His grandson asked him what happened to him, but he just said he was excited. A short time before he had lost his wife. He decided to write a funeral march. Because health brokenness, the piece was in piano papers and it is not known who adapted the march for the instruments of a band.
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A tear, dedicated to safe home girls
Around noon on Thursday, April 6, 2017, several musicians got out of a minibus in front of the entrance of the Virgen de la Asunción home, where on March 8 of that year a tragedy occurred that shook the entire country.
They were the members of the eclectic quintetthat arrived at the scene to perform a simple, but felt posthumous tribute to the 41 victims of the incident.
They chose processional march A tearby Manuel Moraga, not only for his title but for being one of the best known and moving. They interpret it with a special string arrangement: cello, violins and double bass.
Luis Recinos participated, violin first; Laura Castaño, second violin; Mónica Ortíz, Violoncello; Adam Figueroa, double bass; Otto Letona, violin.