Does The City Have A Sound?
<p>On the morning of the 22nd of December 2020, I went for a walk in the centre of Jerez de la Frontera.</p>
<p>Suddenly, from the local bars, high-pitched ghostly voices wafted over the smell of coffee. I was used to strange disturbances in the streets — impromptu flamenco singing, bizarre religious festivals — so I wasn’t surprised. But I was unnerved, and avoiding bars, so I didn’t investigate. I later found out that it had been children singing out lottery numbers for the ‘Sorteo de Navidad’, the Christmas Spanish lottery.</p>
<p>I was fascinated that those angelic, haunting voices had been <a href="https://youtu.be/YzmTovfby1s" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">singing out the numbers</a> on the same day for 200 years. The voices famously belonged to the orphans of San Ildefonso in Madrid, trained up to perform for the honour.</p>
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