This is a crossover from my other blog, the one I do for the Orfeón Jacetano. I've just published an entry on it in Spanish, so I thought I'd do one in English.
On Saturday we broke new ground. The Orfeón Jacetano celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, and over the decades we've been to many places and sung in different conditions, from churches and cathedrals, theatres, cinemas, town and city squares, parks, even a football stadium, I seem to remember. Well, on Saturday we sang in an archaeological site. The ruins of the medieval hospital of Santa Cristina in Candanchú can't be seen from the road. Many people would have come there to ski or take advantage of the mountain climate in summer and never have realised there was anything of interest up the stone steps just before the buildings in the mountain resort.
A few years ago, coming out of the pandemic, we sang our annual August concert outside the church in Candanchú. We got really cold. However, on Saturday, in the middle of the third heatwave this summer, the midday sun was merciless. Before the concert we wore hats and some even had umbrellas: I noticed there was even an umbrella with level 50 SPF.
The setting was matchless. The accoustics between singers were good. We could hear each other well.
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