FRANKFURT, July 12 — More than 7,500 musicians perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy in Frankfurt's soccer stadium, setting a new record for the world's largest orchestra.
Twenty eight-year-old trumpeter and music teacher Jens Illemann organised the event, and says the biggest challenge was for all the musicians to play in unison.
Illemann says: “We solved this by putting up a 550 square metre video screen here at the stadium so that our director, Wolf Kerschek will be seen 16 metres tall from every corner of the stadium.”
The previous record was set in Brisbane, Australia in 2013, when 7,224 musicians played together for at least five minutes.
The orchestra in Frankfurt was composed of 7,548 musicians, who played Ode to Joy. — Reuters
