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At the beginning of the century choral competitions in which the "Orfeón Donostiarra" inevitably participated were frequent. Numerous awards correspond to this time that would culminate in 1906 with the Paris Grand Prix d'Honneur.
In 1909 Choirmaster Esnaola made a transcendental decision for the future of the "Orfeón Donostiarra": to allow women to enter and transform the choir of bass voices into a mixed choir. This brought the possibility of broadening the horizon of its repertoire and its entry into the symphonic-choral world. With great expectation, the people of Donostia listened to the version of "Bello Navío" for the first time by a "Orfeón Donostiarra" with "young ladies" instead of the children that sang the treble part. The victory was certain..
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In this period of the Choirmaster Esnaola we must mention the performances at the Casino San Sebastián with the Symphonic Orchestra, lead by Choirmaster Arbós, and the concerts at the Teatro Lírico and the Teatro Real in Madrid. One of the most significant was the performance in Portugal in 1925 of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Choirmaster Blanch, one of the works that the "Orfeón Donostiarra" has performed most over its hundred years, since its premiere in 1912.
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