OMG: VIDEO: Venezuela claims Guinness World Record for largest orchestra – Gulf Digital News

  • Date: 21-Nov-2021
  • Source: Gulf Daily News
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OMG: VIDEO: Venezuela claims Guinness World Record for largest orchestra – Gulf Digital News

CARACAS: Venezuela's National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras - known as "El Sistema" - has set a new Guinness record for the world's largest orchestra with 8,573 musicians playing together, the country's government said on Saturday.

A week ago more than 12,000 musicians played a classical piece together for more than five minutes as they sought to beat a Russian record that was set two years ago.

Venezuela's Information Minister Freddy Nanez and the Russian ambassador in Caracas, Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, congratulated the musicians on Saturday in an address broadcast on state television.