Hungarian orchestra cheers locked down Budapest with drive-by music

Careworkers of a nursing home enjoy as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra plays classical music recordings on loudspeakers of a car going around the city to cheer up people under lockdown, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's MAV Symphony Orchestra is taking its music to the streets of Budapest to lift the spirits of residents quarantined in their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, and it appears to be working.

The orchestra founded by Hungarian railway company MAV is 75 years old this year and remains one of the country's leading classical ensembles.