A Week of Christmas Concerts

Concert held in Valladolid on 17th December (Photo:Army Deputy Inspection General Northeast)

Concert held in Seville on 18th December (Photo:Land Force)

For this week Army Units have organized Christmas concerts in various Spanish cities. 

The Melilla General Command Music Unit has offered several concerts on the occasion of the upcoming holiday.  On the morning of 12th December it performed at the ‘Drop of Milk’ OAP Day Centre, where a hundred people enjoyed pasodobles and Christmas carols.  It performed again on 18th December at the ‘Reina Sofia’ Special Education School under the baton of Command Sergeant Major Juan E. Marrades. The school’s teachers and students enjoyed a large repertoire of pieces such as: Silent Night, Dime Niño (Tell Me Child) or El Chiquirriquitín. The Unit will offer another concert on 20th December at the Military Club in Melilla.

In turn, on 13th December the Balearic Island Command Music Unit held a Christmas concert at the ‘Llar de Bonanova’ nursing home in Palma de Mallorca. The following day the Music Unit performed on Base ‘Jaime II’.

On 17th December, in the Royal Palace Throne Room in Valladolid, the Army Base Department Music Unit performed –and will perform again on 20th December, at the Military Cathedral in Madrid-. This same day, at the Burgos Savings Bank Auditorium, the Heavy Forces Music Unit –conducted by Major José F. Boyer- interpreted military marches, popular songs and pasodobles.

The Land Force Music Unit –conducted by Lieutenant Manuel Bernal- on 18th December performed a concert at its Headquarters in Seville. 

Today in Zaragoza, at 8:15 pm, in the Motzar Hall of the city’s auditorium, the Saint Hermenegildo choir is going to offer a concert for the benefit of the Holy Refuge Association, and will again offer a concert tomorrow at the Former Aragón ‘Capitanía’ Headquarters Palace at seven o’clock in the evening.  On the same day other concerts will be held, those already mentioned in Madrid and Melilla, as well as those to be held on Base Santo Domingo (Valencia) and at the Training and Doctrine Command Headquarters Throne Room (Granada); the latter having the peculiarity of being a concert of flamenco Christmas carols. 

The 11th Engineering Regiment Military Band will perform on 21st December at the Julián Sánchez ‘El Charro’ Municipal Centre auditorium in the city of Tormes.