Venezuelan youth orchestras combine to set new world record

Members of the National Orchestra System play a 12-minute Tchaikovsky piece to try and break a Guinness World Record (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them youngsters, have earned the title of the world’s largest orchestra.

Guinness World Records announced the 8,573 musicians, all connected to the country’s network of youth orchestras, earned the designation with a performance a week earlier of Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March.