Guinness World Record music anniversary

Rome, Italy - Two years ago, composer pianist Christian Calcatelli began a concert that would go down in history – according to Guinness World Records - as the world’s “longest solo music internet broadcast”.

 

Streaming live over the web for its whole duration, Christian improvised for 30,000 people for 60 hours and 1 minute on a STEINWAY D concert grand. With the audience being allowed to follow also through a live video stream, the task of entertaining was quite taxing as the same quality had to be kept in respects of the different times zones.

 

When America was sleeping, in fact, Asia and Europe were wide awake plus there was an audience right on location in the heart of historical Rome.

 

Christian performed in his new age/classical contemporary style. The event, known as The Calx Project, aimed to raise awareness and funds for PLAN INTERNATIONAL and their programmes to benefit children in South America.

 

After reviewing the 60 hours of audio and video recordings, Christian selected material for a double CD collection entitled “A broken Record – Original music from The Calx Project” which contain live recordings of the improvisations taken from the first hour to the last, inspiring countdown at the end of the thirds night.

 

Samples from this event are available on Christian’s website at www.calcatelli.com

 

For info, email: Christian@calcatelli.com