Trium Puerorum (2024) Live in Granollers

Performed by Ferran Passola (tenor), Marc Majó (tenor), Joan Climent (baritone), in Sant Esteve de Granollers (Barcelona, Spain), 5th May 2024.
Composed by Luis Meseguer Mira
The story behind the music:
Akash Bashir. He became volunteer for the security of his parish, St. John's in Lahore (Pakistan). A man carrying explosives tried to get inside, but Akash blocked the way and grabbed hold of this man. Akash' final words were 'I will die, but I never let you through'. That was 11:15 in the morning of 15 March 2015. He was 20 years old.
Michael Nnadi. He was a seminarian from Good Shepherd Seminary in Kaduna (Nigeria). On January 8 2020, he was kidnapped along with three other students. The other three were released, but Michael was murdered, according to his captor, because 'he continued preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ' and 'told him to his face to change his evil ways'. Michael was 18 years old.
Matthew Ayariga. On 15 february 2015, ISIS published a video that shocked the entire world: the beheading of 21 coptic men in a Lybian beach. 20 of them were Egyptians and their names were known, but 1 of them was not. He seemed to be from a sub-saharian country. Later, some friends identified him: he was Matthew Ayariga, a migrant worker from Ghana. He was probably not coptic (who knows?), but when he saw that their mates were to die, he accepted to die with them. Some sources said that their last words were 'Their God is my God'.
The text of this piece is taken from the Book of Daniel. It tells the story of Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael. They were three young men of the court of the Babylionan king Nebuchadnezzar. The king had erected a 27-metre sculpture of pure gold and ordered all present to prostrate themselves before it. The three young men, who were Jews, refused and preferred to be taken to the furnace. As the flames did not burn them, they joyfully sang an hymn known later as the 'Trium puerorum' or 'Benedicite'.
'Trium Puerorum' is my musical offering for Bashir, Nnadi and Ayariga, who are our contemporary Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael.
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