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Forget the flash mobs, this project promoting Esa-Pekka Salonen’s residency in Dortmund, Germany is a truly next-level effort to take ‘music out of the concert hall and put it right on the street’:

Twelve tireless musicians played for 24 hours in a row 21,600 bars and 86,400 individual notes from a custom-composed score on a stage in the heart of Dortmund.

Effective, too – the orchestra’s first set of concerts with Salonen sold out.