That was in 1943. Holy Monday in Seville had formed – for the last time, since Vera Cruz was incorporated the following year – only three fraternities. On April 19, the Seville Municipal BandUnder the supervision and performance of Maestro Manuel Higuera … First time after pallium Virgin of Sorrows of San Vicente It seems that since then he will never be separated from the brotherhood that turns 150 years old this year. Those present heard at that moment Premiere of the film “Jesus of Sorrows”the first career of a person named Antonio Pantheon Pérez, who two decades later was named an honorary brother of the company.
Panción’s first work was written in Madrid, where the musician was finishing his studies. Long before, when he joined as a brother at the time of reorganization of the fraternity, he was consecrated Stanzas of the Quintet of the Lord of Sorrows With words by Manuel Gomez Alvarez Franco who currently maintains the brotherhood. But this was different. Panción, without knowing it, was about to compose the piece of music that would soon become the soundtrack to “Holy Monday” in San Vicente and in His most famous and immortal works To the point that he outperformed everyone who came after him.
he February 25, 1943 He finished composing the unique march in the capital of Spain, and among its inspirations was a composition with a funerary nature that he made in his country Cooperation with NO8DO. The work arrived after his brothers from Las Piñas repeatedly asked him to dedicate a processional procession to the brothers, taking as reference the lamentation passage represented by its Christian title and the remembrance of Holy Mondays in the vicinity of the parish.
Pantheon’s next march, which He was not a particularly prolific composerIt was signed twelve years later. She is “Our Lady of Montserrat”. Then came other words that we still hear in our Holy Week, such as “Holy Christ of the Seven Words” or “Our Lady of Guadalupe.” All of his marches, except for “Jesús de las Piñas”, were like this Written between 1955 and 1973By a narrow margin, although only eleven pieces arrived after his masterpiece.
Two walks of sorrows
Among these pieces as well “Your pain is my sorrow”written in 1970 and dedicated to the Marian president of San Vicente after the Virgin waitress of the Pantheon requested it. He was already preceded by the success of his first career. The indescribable sounds of every Holy Week of the Paleo Pass were present last Saturday with the Lord Himself, after which they appeared in El Salvador Square and again moments before they were gathered.
Although “Tus Dolores son Mis Penas” has also become a hymn of the brotherhood and has a place in any ceremonial or funerary repertoire worth its salt, for decades the popularity of “Jesús de las Penas” was very great. Just listen to the first three notes So that any brother might quickly recognize him, he was inexorably carried to the Via Cardinal Cisneros, where he was heard every year during the display of the pious image of the fallen Christ.
This November, for A century and a half of history From the brotherhood, the unmistakable sounds played by the Tejera band have also clothed the Lord of Sorrows in concert not once, but three times: in Buen Suceso, in the Basilica of Gran Poder, and in the dark night of the San Vicente Parish where the immortal Panción marches sound better than anywhere else.