MANILVA CRISTMAS BAND AND CHOIR CONCERT.

WEDNESDAY 22ND DECEMBER 2010.

THE CRISTMAS CONCERT WITH THE BAND AND CHOIRS OF MANILVA.


Last night we went to the annual Christmas concert which takes place in the church of Santa Ana; the local council arrange the concert which is performed by the “ La Banda Municipal de Music de Manilva ” together with the “ El Coro Municipal de Manilva ”and also last night joined by the “ Coro Infantil ” What makes the evening so special is that the bands and choirs are all from the village and so you see friends and neighbours along with their children performing to a very high standard. The band under the direction of Fernando Antinolo Bueno and the choir under the direction of Francisco Sanchez Rubiales are very professional and each year they put on a show to be remembered, which is at the same time broadcast on Manilva TV. The pictures below only give you a little taste of the evening’s performance.

The concert started with the main choir with their own musical accompaniment singing local traditional Xmas songs which everybody joins in with, the church is full and the atmosphere is terrific; the second part is when the full band comes on, there are over fifty people of all ages including whole families who have grown up with the band. The concert is made up of a selection of music from Johann Strauss to theme tunes from films as well as some traditional Spanish Flamenco tunes; Fernando Bueno’s scores are rather special and the sounds from what in basic is a Brass band reach terrific heights. In the middle of the band concert the very young children from the local school in the village enter and leave down the aisle of the church and then sing their hearts out under the young conductor ,who had taken over, meanwhile there is not a dry eye in the house mainly from their parents ! At one point a young Clarinetes takes centre stage in a very moving and rousing number; to end the concert the choir joins the band together with an excellent young singer “ Begona Tirado Calle ” She has a voice to die for and brought the audience to its feet, not for the first time! For an encore they did a version of “Gingle Bells ” with Paco “ Ringo ”on the drums and finally Fernando leads the whole church in the Strauss Clapping song that the Viennese State Orchestra performs on New Years day in Vienna !!


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