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World's Biggest Orchestra: Queensland Festival's James Morrison Conducts Record-Breaking Band in Brisbane
As in Buffalo, New York, they're breaking records in Queensland, Australia! Well one, anyway, but it is, by definition, a biggie. The good people of the Queensland Music Festival are now the proud holders of the record for World's Biggest Orchestra. This summer, the festival's artistic director James Morrison conducted--wait for it--an ensemble of 7,244 musicians. English National Opera Starts Cinema Broadcasts with David Alden's 'Peter Grimes,' Terry Gilliam's Berlioz
With the number of opera companies, theater troupes, ballets corps and orchestras now launching their own cinecast services, one could almost launch a dedicated chain of cinemas--showing nothing but high arts events. The latest to join the Met, Glyndebourne, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Berlin Philharmonic, Covent Garden and so many others is English National Opera. Their initiative, called ENO Screen, will launch in spring 2014.
