The International Trombone Festival kicked off today with a spectacle at Juilliard today. Joe Alessi led a Trombone flash outside of Lincoln Center today. Wagner surely intended this. This was billed as an opportunity to break the Guinness world record for Trombone choir (369 strong). The festival will be combined with Alessi's premiere of Williams Bolcolm's Trombone Concerto on Friday evening. This is but one of the events on the action packed schedule.