Spasskaya Tower international Military music festival, an annual military music event held in Moscow on red square. This year it will be held on red square from August 24 to September 2.
Orchestra of the Carabinieri of the Prince albert II of Monaco will bring the world of Westeros in Moscow in the framework of the programme, during the festival “Spasskaya Tower”.
“Our performance at the festival” Spasskaya Tower “will include routine songs from “game of thrones”. We also prepare many other surprises for the audience of the festival. It will be interesting,” said the bandleader Olivier Drian told RIA Novosti.
According to the Director of the orchestra, the Prince of Monaco personally approved the group’s participation in the festival. The orchestra is part of his personal guard 124 people, 24 of whom are musicians.
The band leader said that when 24 of the carabinieri to leave Monaco, other bodyguards have more work to do, protecting the Prince.
“We’re not a normal team, as 85% of our work is guarding the Prince; our main task is to protect him. We more and more soldiers and bodyguards of the Prince, than musicians, so we have special requirements”, – he said.
The head explained that one of the carabinieri must be 19 to 27 years of age and be at least 180 cm, but not more than two meters tall.
They must have excellent health to pass various examinations, including written examinations.
In addition, the carabiner must not be married and only after the first year of service, he may request the Prince to grant him permission to marry.
Olivier said that the Prince of Monaco has good taste in music and often his musical preferences affect the repertoire of the band of the carabinieri. For example, they once played one of the songs of the rock group AC / DC, in which his Majesty very much.
“Recently we played at the birthday party of the Prince, and it was a special event, which was attended by many different groups. I think albert liked everything, because my head still on his shoulders,” Olivier joked.
Spasskaya Tower international Military music festival will be attended by many Russian and foreign military bands, folk bands and honor guard units from foreign countries.
More than 40 countries participated in the festival since 2006. The festival is named after the world famous Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
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