Last Sunday, September 12th, while going up the avenue of Tervuren to finish their race, the runners of the 20 Km of Brussels were encouraged by hunting horn bands.
Indeed, it is on the square Leopold II, at the foot of the monument of the cavalry that the bellringers of the Cercle Royal Saint Hubert stood. Throughout the event they sounded their most beautiful fanfares to encourage the runners at the end of these twenty kilometers of race.
The Cercle Royal Saint Hubert had been keeping a low profile for some time. Indeed, although founded in 1882 and thus one of the oldest horn circles in Belgium, this group had been losing momentum for some years. Especially since the death of our friend Marc Zimmer. But it was without counting on the will of the few remaining members.
Since now a good year, the Circle has started again and counts now about twenty members. These, although most of them are beginners in the practice of the hunting horn and for some of them in the practice of music itself, have started with all the ardor that characterizes the youth in the difficult apprenticeship of the horn. Indeed, since the sanitary measures allow it, it is once a week that our bellringers meet to work their instrument in group.
In addition, a lot of work has been done by some people who will recognize themselves and whom we thank here to repair the outfits of the Circle which for some still date from 1952 and needed a serious refreshment.
It is thus thanks to the conjugation of all its efforts that we had the pleasure to see again for the first time but certainly not the last, about fifteen red tunics of the Circle.
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