Banner of Societat Coral Els Aucellets

Banner of Societat Coral Els Aucellets

1925

Donation: Ramon Queralt Garcia

The Aucellets choral society was founded in 1924-1925 by a group of friends, residents of the riera de Sant Joan. As was common at the time, it was also a cultural and recreational organization that brought together the entire neighborhood in the events it organized.

During the 1940s and 1950s, at the headquarters of the Aucellets (in fact, at the headquarters of Los Pajaritos, since the Franco regime forced the Castilianization of the organization’s name) there was intense activity that went beyond concerts of the choir. Thus, the choir organized excursions, ping-pong and also chess championships; dances, carnivals, etc.

The entity lasted until the 1990s, but in practice, it had been slowly fading away for more than twenty years.

Ramon Queralt donated this banner and, also, the 12 medals that were preserved from various songs and events in which the choir had participated. These are mostly medals from the 1950s (inv. MB 9886 to 9897).

In addition, in 2011, Joan de Escalada donated a tie of the standard of 1931. He also donated three commemorative pictures of the entity: one from 1929, a picture of honor from the library of the choral society with the list of all the people who had donated books (inv. MB 14653); another from 1930, with the individual photograph of all the members of the organization (inv. MB 14654), and a third, from 1950, which is an honor roll made on the occasion of the choral society’s 25th anniversary (inv. MB 14652).

 

Material: Silk fabric with embroidery and trim Dimensions: 125 x 74 cm. Ref.: Inv. MB 9695