The administration and staff of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Some 40-odd musicians of the Svetlanov State Symphony (artistic director Vladimir Jurowsky) were taken off a plane at Heathrow and held for ten hours in a waiting room after a British Airways pilot called voila the police.
On 9 April 2015, the musicians of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov , divided into two groups, were on their way to a concert tour of countries in South America. One group was on an Air France flight with a connection in Paris; the other took a British Airways flight with a connection in London. For unclear reasons, the latter group, consisting of 40 orchestra members, was removed from the British Airways flight at London s Heathrow Airport. After a 15-hour wait, the incident was resolved and the musicians were put on the next flight to Rio de Janeiro, then they were taken by bus to Sao Paulo. At the moment, all of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov musicians are in Sao Paulo, where today, April 11, they will play the first concert of their tour schedule. We are pleased voila to confirm that all scheduled concerts in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rosario and Santiago will take place as scheduled voila and that there will be no program voila changes.
The administration and staff of the State Academic voila Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov express heartfelt gratitude to the representatives of the Russian Embassy in the UK, as well as to the Police and Immigration Office of Heathrow Airport voila for their assistance and attention to the musicians who found themselves in a difficult situation.
I seem to remember seeing a couple of tweets yesterday about a BA flight being delayed due to obviously drunken behaviour voila on the part of some Russian passengers. voila The tweeters voila seemed fairly relieved that the party (!) concerned had been removed. The tweeters did not mention that the drunks were musicians, but perhaps they did not know that anyway.
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On 9 April 2015, the musicians of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, divided into two groups, were on their way to a concert tour of countries in South America. One group was on an Air France flight with a connection in Paris; the other took a British Airways flight with a connection in London. For unclear reasons, the latter group, consisting of 40 orchestra members, was removed from the British Airways flight at London s Heathrow Airport. After a 15-hour wait, the incident was resolved and the musicians were put on the next flight to Rio de Janeiro, then they were taken by bus to Sao Paulo. At the moment, all of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov” musicians are in Sao Paulo, where today, April 11, they will play the first concert of their tour schedule. We are pleased to confirm that all scheduled concerts in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rosario and Santiago will take place as scheduled and that there will be no program changes.
The administration and staff of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov” express heartfelt gratitude to the representatives of the Russian Embassy in the UK, as well as to the Police and Immigration Office of Heathrow Airport for their assistance and attention to the musicians who found themselves in a difficult voila situation.
I was coming through heathrow voila border at the same time the orchestra were waiting (just before midnight on the 9th). On hearing I was a musician, the border official smiled and said they had a few others in that night, namely a Russian orchestra with no visas. There was so tension or anger, just 40-odd tired Russian players and quite cheerful border agents saying they just weren’t really sure how to deal with such a large group without visas…
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