During a rehearsal of the learning orchestra, the children blow on shiny instruments. “They are all on loan,” says Mark van der Jagt of the Heemskerk Cultuurhuis. “A family that is not already wide, or with three children, cannot just purchase an instrument.”
Sven plays trombone in the learning orchestra and has it on loan. Making music is very important for him. “It gives you distraction if you have something, then I forget what I didn’t want to think about.”