Over Twenty Countries Forwarded their Applications to Take Part in This Years’ Spasskaya Tower Festival

The Twelfth Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival will unfold on Moscow’s Red Square from August 23 to September 1, 2019.

The Direction of the Festival has already received preliminary applications forwarded by military music and artistic ensembles of more than twenty countries from all over the world including Europe.

“Preparations for the Twelfth Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival have already started. As usual the number of preliminary applications from our foreign colleagues is twice bigger than the number of ensembles we can welcome. Each year the Spasskaya Tower Festival receives at maximum twelve countries besides Russia. The reason is the overall duration of the show that shouldn’t exceed two and a half hours”, told Major-General Timofey Mayakin, Head of the Military Music Band Service of the Russian Armed Forces — Chief Military Conductor and music director of the Festival.

He emphasized that the Direction of the Festival was thrilled with such attention from the colleagues adding that thanks to such forums military musicians from different countries had an opportunity to exchange expertise and get mutually acquainted with cultural and military traditions.

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In 2018 Moscow’s Red Square for the eleventh time in a row hosted the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival.

The Festival is popular among all the categories of audiences attracting wide attention both of Russian and international media. According to the Smyslografia Analytical Agency and Mediologia Information Analytical System, media of thirty six countries mentioned the Spasskaya Tower Festival in its publications. Moreover, it has become the most cited military music event of the year 2018 getting ahead of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the oldest festival of the kind, and receiving its outmost attention from media resources representing Great Britain, Spain and the USA.

The audiences of the 2018 Festival night shows alone scored more than 90,000 people. All in all more than 500, 000 of Muscovites and guests of the capital attended events executed by the Spasskaya Tower Festival’s Directorate. All in all 105 media representatives, including 23 foreign agencies, covered the events of the Festival. The Media Center issued 1506 accreditations for reporters and bloggers. Thus, the overall audience coverage of the project featuring the media campaign, Internet and TV broadcasts totaled in more than 550 millions of people all over the world.