Arseny Avraamov - Symphony Of Factory Sirens (Public Event, Baku 1922)

Arsenij Avraamov’s best-known creation appeared involved the Caspian port of Baku [Bakı, capital of Azerbaijan], for the Fifth Anniversary of the Soviet Republic on 7 November 1922. A spectacular, called the Symphony of the Factory Sirens, used the services of a huge cast of choirs (joined by spectators), the foghorns of the entire Soviet Caspian flotilla, two batteries of artillery guns, a number of full infantry regiments (including a machine-gun division) hydroplanes, and all the factory sirens of Baku. Conductors posted on specially built towers signaled various sound units with colored flags and pistol shots. A central “steam-whistle machine“ pounded out “The Internationale“ and “La Marseillaise“ as noisy “autotransports“ (half-tracks) raced across Baku for a gigantic sound finale in the festival square. Russian composer and theorist. He studied theory at the music school attached to the Moscow Philharmonic Society with I.N. Protopopov and A.M. Kore