Klarinet Archive - Posting 001177.txt from 1998/07

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] THE WORLD'S LARGEST ORCHESTRA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:02:58 -0400

> The World's Largest Orchestra
>
> A youth orchestra of 2,049 brought together by the Pittsburgh Symphony
> has set a new Guinness Record.
> 961 strings, 458 woodwinds, 410 brass and 220 percussionists,
> They were conducted by Mariss Jansons in Michaels Moricz's MUSIC
> FOREVER.
>
> Berlioz would have been envious
> And how many ear plugs were there?

oh the swines.

the previous record, earlier this year, was set near where my mother and
the parents of one of my clarinet-choir friends live. i had seriously
suggested we went along to help: would two more clarinets in the kent
county youth orchestra have kept them the record, i wonder...?

(the kcyo put on the performance as a publicity stunt, in the face of
an imminent funding cut. i do hope pittsburgh's achievement won't
detract from kcyo's campaign...)

robin

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