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Stefan Englert

Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with great flourish.

Why a Hungarian orchestra had to borrow seven violin bows from friends

Arts, Culture & Media

The Budapest Festival Orchestra came to New York to play an all-Dvorak concert at Lincoln Center in New York. But the musicians were shocked when US Customs officials at JFK Airport seized seven bows belonging to the orchestra’s string section. New federal regulations ban the commercial import of any and all elephant ivory – including the tips of classical violin bows.

Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with great flourish.

Why a Hungarian orchestra had to borrow seven violin bows from friends

Arts, Culture & Media
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