Klarinet Archive - Posting 001222.txt from 1998/07

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] THE WORLD'S LARGEST ORCHESTRA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:43:09 -0400

At 08:45 PM 27/07/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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?
>--

How many conductors? And how many dollars worth of instruments? I hate to
think how long it took to set up the percussion gear!!

Anna

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