Christmas in Madrid

I adore group energy of nearly any sort — I feed on it, and choral music is one of my favorite forms.  I’ll expand this to a full post soon, but for now I just want everyone to know that there’s a series of Christmas concerts happening in Madrid.  The brochure, which is titled “Música en nuestras Iglesias”, doesn’t list a website, I’m afraid, so I’d suggest trying esmadrid.com which has a whole Christmas activities page.  My first Christmas visitor arrived yesterday and as the first concert was a nice walk up to the top of Calle Embajadores, to Iglesia San Millán y San Cayetano, on the way to the San Ginés Chocolatería, we checked it out.  The Coral Cristóbal de Morales has some lovely voices in it though there were some challenges with their rhythms, and the church acoustics were passable.  Tonight, actually in the Parroquia de San Ginés itself, I’ve got my eye on the Grupo Vocal Juan de Mena.