The Simón Bolívar Park in Bogotá became the scene of the ‘largest concert in the world’, an event hosted by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and in which more than 16,000 musicians of all ages they played their instruments and raised their voices for the truth and for a peaceful country for all.
in conversation with RCN Mundo, the director of the Bogotá Philharmonic, David García, He indicated that “we were working in those six months with the public schools in the localities of Bogotá and with the different orchestras, that is, with everything that the Bogotá Philharmonic orchestra system means today.”
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He stressed that the Bogotá Philharmonic today “is not an orchestra, but there are 11 orchestras and in addition to that, it is a musical training program with 30,000 children in public schools and in the localities“, under the direction of Rubián Rubian Zuluaga, Assistant Music Director of the Bogotá Philharmonic and Juliana Peña, who was trained in the musical training project.
He related that in order to make the event a reality, “each orchestra had its director and they already know the instructions. In the end we put four cameras in front of the big orchestra and all the children, so that they could see the director in a large image and be guided”.
