Tríptic de Sant Josep

I have composed and arranged about 60 Christmas carols and I had never dedicated one to Saint Joseph! Here are three songs starred by this Christmassy saint, in order to compensate this oversight. 

The principal subject of this cycle eminently has an effect in its second song and is due to an idea, which I have had in mind for a long time and that I consider to be quite funny: If Jesus worked wonders as an adult, he might have discovered and learned to handle with his superpowers progressively – like a superhero of a comic – as a child. Because bathing a child that is able to walk on water could have been a drama rather than a hygienic act. And if this child had the ability to convert water into wine, his family surely was delighted and zigzagged about the streets of Nazareth. The thing is that the cycle has a clearly funny character: Have you ever asked yourself what the ox was doing in the crib? Well, you’ll get an answer to this question in the first song. The last song mixes modern times and tradition: Saint Joseph is at the same time both the saint of the crib and an actor of this crib that feels renewed - both physically and spiritually – when standing next to the actress interpreting the Virgin.

All three songs are written for a male-voice choir and piano, with a castanet part “ad libitum” in the third song. Their musical language is classical and they are easy to read.
Jordi Domènech, Tavèrnoles, april 2008