Showing posts with label Coro Misioneros del Espíritu Santo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coro Misioneros del Espíritu Santo. Show all posts

22 December 2016

Navidad with the Coro Misioneros del Espíritu Santo

The Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (Misioneros del Espíritu Santo) were founded on Christmas Day 102 years ago in Mexico City. This holiday offering from its choir is undated, but appears to be from about 1960.

It presents a delightful conclusion to the blog's seasonal fare for the year, with its simple but well performed program from what I believe to be students at the seminary school, accompanied by electric organ and accordion. The proceedings were directed by Reverendo Padre Anselmo Murillo.

The recording was by Columbia of Mexico, but this 10-inch LP appears to have been issued by the choir. The download includes the usual scans, this time including the labels and a four-page insert with texts in Spanish. I've also included my cleaned-up machine translation of the back cover notes. (I studied three languages in school - none of them Spanish - and wasn't very good at any of them, so that may set your expectations of the translation at an appropriate level.) The sound is good.

Once again, happy holidays to all visitors!

The Misioneros del Espíritu Santo, at a somewhat earlier time than the recording