The Madrid public transport users have been enjoying a nice surprise today when members of the Film Symphony Orchestra have improvised a concert at Moncloa in order to promote his new tour. About 40 musicians of the orchestra have been protagonists of a "flashmob", in which the said exchanger travelers were able to hear musical parts great works of cinema.

As explained the managing director of Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid, Jesús Valverde, has been an unprecedented initiative, in which the musicians in a symphony, with their instruments, participated in a sample for public transport customers. "It was a little preview of these artists offer concerts on 17 and 18 October at the National Auditorium and a small example of the activities that take place throughout the system to provide a more quality to their users," the regional official added.

In addition, the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid will raffled among public transport users that have the October Transport Pass, ten tickets to attend the concert, which will be interpreted large current movie titles like "Pirates of the Caribbean" or "Gladiator" and other pieces already become classics as "Apollo 13", "Out of Africa", "Dances With Wolves", "Star Wars", "Jaws", "Indiana Jones", "ET" or themes of James Bond. For this, the user must send an email to clubdeamigos@crtm.es with their data.

Cultural Initiatives
The collaboration between the regional organism and cultural initiatives is constant, conceiving the public transport system and, specifically, as meeting exchangers. "Keep in mind -Valverde said- that the public transport network recorded more than four million trips per day, so that different broadcast channels are a great way to convey messages and promote values."

For this reason, in so far this year, the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid has worked in twenty charitable causes, sports and culture, making available its facilities to reach as many citizens as possible. In addition, the extensive public transport system managed and designed by the Community of Madrid allows enjoy the leisure of the most secure and reliable as possible, becoming a space of human and cultural progress.

Thus, many artistic companies and sports clubs have spread the importance of public transport in the region and the new Public Transport Card, as is the current case of the Film Symphony Orchestra and before the Cirque du Soleil, the Spanish National Handball or sportsmen of Real Madrid Baloncesto.

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