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250 thousand visitors and 37 concerts over five years: the fifth season of Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1 is closed

On 31 August the fifth season of Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1 came to it’s end in Minsk with a concert from Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. On the occasion of the festival’s anniversary, we recall the highlights of the last five years and how the tradition of musical nights spread across the country.

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

This summer there have been nine concerts held. Open air classic music concerts for the first time were organized for the dwellers and guests of Brest, Gomel and Grodno – Art Music Orchestra and Minsk Classic band performed the best music compositions by Strauss Father and Son. Streets of Vitebsk dived into the atmosphere of Viennese Ball, the city hosted the festival for the second time already. By the end of the season all five cities that had hosted Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1 this year created a festival soundtrack out of it’s sounds.

The first anniversary of Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1 prompted the festival to summarize it's results over the five years of it's existence.

Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1: 2015 – 2019 – this is:

  • 37 concerts in 5 cities across the country: Vitebsk, Brest, Minsk, Gomel, Grodno;
  • 40 bands out of 17 countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Venezuela, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, France, Switzerland, The Ukraine, Estonia;
  • Record-breaking number of performers within I, Culture Orchestra project: 103 musicians from 7 countries performed simultaneously on the same stage which is three times more participants than the total number over the first season;
  • Over 250 thousand visitors: this is the number of people that could gather in one of the most prestigious concert halls in the world – Carnegie Hall in New York throughout 90 nights;
  • Over 100 hours of classic music: like 8 times performance of the longest symphony ever, i.e. 13-hour Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers;
  • The most massive selfie in Belarus taken by maestro Alexander Anisimov with 8 thousand visitors pictured which coincides with the number of the most massive orchestra listed in the Guinness Book of World Records (Musichome Orchestra and Christian Television System in Seoul in 2017);
  • The biggest “invitation” to the concert – 300 meters violin clef on one of the fields in Minsk oblast. This is the height of the Eiffel Tower;
  • About 35 thousand visitors watched online broadcasting or recorded versions of the concerts on VOKA. If they gathered together, they could fill up Dynamo stadium and Minsk-Arena.

The final concert of the fifth season was closed with variety of compositions of different genres and epochs – from Bach and Rossini to Muslim Magomayev, Metallica and musical Notre-Dame De Paris performed by the orchestra and it’s numerous friends: singer Ivan Vabischevich, soloists of Bolshoi Theatre Ilia Silchukov and Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus Elena Shvedova, founder and soloist of Palladium Electric Band Oleg Paul (electric violin) and scholarship holder of the special fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus Tatiana Kormazinova (flute).

Classic nights over five years are being organized by A1 and Minsk City Administration. The festival gained support of regional administrations. Every concert of Classic Music at Cityhall Together with A1 was traditionally free of charge. Any concert is available online free of charge even now via VOD VOKA on any device and in any operator’s network. The archive of the concerts is available under this link.