World`s best brass bands to perform at festival in Moscow.

MOSCOW, September 5 (Itar-Tass) - Best brass bands from across the
world are expected to appear in front of audiences on open performing
floors in Moscow as part of the Spasskaya Bashnya /the Savior's Tower of
the Kremlin/ festival that opened Saturday on the city's Read Square.
The festival is dedicated to the annual City Day, which Moscow marks
on the first weekend of September.
"Everyone who gets to Russia's main square /the epithet often applied
to Red Square in this country - Itar-Tass/ will have an opportunity to get
familiarized with the art of military brass bands from eleven countries,"
Deputy Mayor Lyudmila Shvetsova said.
The Orchestra and the Detachment of the Guards of Honor from
Kazakhstan will perform in the Hermitage Garden - a popular small public
park on the downtown Petrovka Street.
The same park will also provide the floor for the performance of the
combined bagpipe and percussion band of the EU and the band of the U.S.
Armed Forces in Europe.
Visitors of the spacious Sokolniki park in the east of the city will
be able to listen to a mini-concert of the Bundeswehr brass band that will
be accompanied by a presentation of a platoon of drummers and trumpeters
of Bundeswehr's Staff Orchestra.
The Band of Bahrain's Royal Police and the Presidential Brass Band of
the Ukrainian Defense Ministry will perform in the Izmailovo park.
The band of France's Northwest Military District will do its
presentation in the famous Gorky Park.
The Alexander Garden located along the Kremlin's northwest wall will
be the site of performance by the brass band of the Israeli Police and the
band of the Commandant's Office of Tajikistan will perform in the Victory
Park west off the city center.
The Spasskaya Bashnya festival will continue through to Thursday,
September 9. Its closure will be crowned with a gala show starring
Mireille Mathieu, a long-time star of the French chanson and variety pop
music.
She is expected to sing, among other things, the Moscow Nights, one of
the most widely known Russian songs. A part of the lyrics has been
translated into French.