Exclusive: Hungarian airforce flies orchestra to Brussels
OrchestrasWhen their flight was cancelled on Monday morning, the Budapest Festival Orchestra were in despair.
They were due to play that evening at the Bozar in Brussels to mark Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
This was a national emergency.
So the Hungarian Defense Forces sent a plane from Kecskemét air base to Budapest, where the orchestra boarded and was flown to Brussels, making it in time for the evening’s concert.
Just imagine the RAF doing that for any UK orchestra…
Would they get invited to play in Brussels?
If it was Ireland, there would have been a hastily organised Ryanair flight that would have taken the players but not the instruments.
Bravo! That is really cool, great to have such support!
Hungary’s institutions take pride in supporting the arts; the UK’s institutions (mostly) take pride in dismantling / ‘decolonizing’ them.
Oh boy… I wonder how much taxpayer’s money this little trip costed…
It is ridiculous that a soft dictatorship with Putinesque tendencies such as Hungary is the President of the EU. It should be thrown out of the EU.
Had been to their performance of Dvorak’s 7th earlier this week – they were in pick form.
Beaux-arts thanks