What Can the Strings Do? A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

A lacquered wooden box in human form, long neck and four strings. What is it? The answer to this question is not obvious (or rather, the question is not sufficiently precise), because it could be the violin, viola, cello or double bass. This concert series presenting musical instruments and organized within the framework of the Liszt Kidz Academy for upper primary school pupils (and their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents) takes in the stringed instruments. We learn about their relationship to each other (and whether, for instance, the violin is really more important than the viola, the answer being: no), whether the strings are really made of horsehair (yes), and how these marvellous instruments are used in classical music and the folk tradition. Junior Prima prize winning Accord Quartet and the string ensemble of students of the Liszt Academy’s Folk Music Department are on hand to help the audience get much closer to the instruments. They are joined by narrator Mátyás Bolya, practising musician, lecturer at the Liszt Academy and father several times over. The concert is a repeat of the programme of the same name staged two years ago.