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Violin art for children
Jochen Brusch and Finn Svit took some hundreds of children into e new musical world.

Höng: Jochen Brusch has just finished a magic trick on his violin and now he wants to know, which animal hides itself behind the music. "A fox", is the answer of a boy. Some others agree while another group laughs: "No, that is a bee!" Then the applause thordens down on the girl, who guessed correctly. And without really to get aware of it the children are suddenly deeply involved in the world of music and animals with sea-horses and all kind og birds. An we learn something about the French King and about his lazy composer, who was asked to write a new work to the honour of the king within one day and got his inspiration from the cuckoo.

Finn Svit demonstrates how "water" can be played on a guitar.

It began with the request that the children should close their eyes and dream themselves into the poetical world of Robert Schumann. The children obeyed well behaved – at least most of them. While blinking through one of the eyes one notices perhaps, that the teacher also has entered dreamland.

Many hundreds of children from the schools of Höng and Buerup were sent into dreamland yesterday by the Signori Brusch and Svit.

The two have more than 500 of these concerts "in their luggage." And two wonderfull CDs, which have filled Yehudi Menuhun and the musical press with enthusiasm.

We get acquainted with both the "Animals Carnival" and the "Four Seasons" and with many other examples during the concert. which lasts one hour whilst the children are captivated and live with it all the way through.

A pity, that such en event is reserved for the children. But Brusch and Svit do also perform for grownups …

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