Venezuela: Thousands of young musicians attempt to break largest orchestra world record

Follow us on Telegram: Subscribe to our channel! More than twelve thousand members of Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs gathered on Saturday afternoon in the courtyard of the military academies in southern Caracas to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest orchestra. The children and young musicians performed the Slavonic March by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with more than 8,097 instruments playing simultaneously for more than five minutes. To determine whether a new world record has been set, more than 250 supervisors and judges had to be present at the event. The National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela was created in 1975 by the prominent Venezuelan conductor Jose Antonio Abreu, and in the last two decades has been maintained by the governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro. Today