Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
People listen as members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra play music on the back of a truck while driving through downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday June 9, 2021. The prestigious orchestra, founded and led by renowned composer Ivan Fischer, took to the streets as five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by. The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Budapest Festival Orchestra wants its audience back.
The prestigious orchestra, led by renowned composer Iván Fischer, took to the streets with that message: Five members of the orchestra performed classical music to motorists and passers-by from a truck in the afternoon traffic in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday.
The musical parade was aimed at encouraging Hungarians to start returning to live performances in concert halls as the pandemic wanes, after more than a year in which people were homebound and forced to take in their culture online.
“I believe that live concerts are very important,” Fischer said. “I think especially now that everyone is fed up with their computers and phones, people will throw them away. They will be back to socializing, getting to know each other, hugging, and talking.”
Wednesday’s performance on the truck was also a celebration of the orchestra’s reunion with music lovers amid an easing of government-imposed lockdown measures to fight the virus. The pandemic hit Hungary particularly hard in the spring, making it for a time the country with the most virus deaths per capita in the world. But the numbers of new infections have now plummeted amid one of the European Union’s fastest vaccination campaigns.
The five musicians played Schubert, Mozart and Dvorak as the truck carried them over the Chain Bridge spanning the Danube River and past St. Stephen’s Basilica and other stunning city landmarks.
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