The three-day music event comprised a series of indoor and outdoor concerts, celebrating the wind instrument. The first day included a special open air performance by an 'all-Israel' symphonic youth orchestra, involving the National Youth and Tel-Aviv Music Academy orchestras. The second day had youth orchestras playing at venues around the town, as well as jazz and improvisation workshops.
Israeli PA company, More-Kol, managed the audio requirements for many of the festival's larger events, employing a pair of iLive systems, comprising iDR10 MixRacks and iLive-144 Control Surfaces, complemented by a TLA line array speaker system.
The climax of the festival was a concert by an orchestra of 500 local musicians from Kfar-Saba, ending with a spectacular fireworks display to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. More-Kol used both iLive systems for the closing ceremony, combining them to mix the large number of inputs.
"The event was a huge success for More-Kol, whose engineers were very impressed by the iLive systems' ability to cope with the demand of so many performers. iLive's distributed audio design made set up much more simple due to the onstage MixRacks, and there were great compliments about the sound quality from many of the conductors, who came from all over the world to take part in the festival," commented Dror Harel from Allen & Heath's Israeli distribution company, TechTop.
(Jim Evans)
