The 'Scouservarius Legacy Project'

‘The Scouservarius Legacy Project’ is simply the commissioning of the people of Liverpool to build ‘The Liverpool Quartet’ - two violins, a viola and cello. They will then be hired out for recording, performance and exhibition worldwide to generate funds to finance and support educational music projects throughout Merseyside for the next 400 years minimum. The purpose of this blog is to document the building of the Liverpool Quartet.

Message from Michael ... "I have launched the project without any funding in place, my thoughts being that a project with such an important long lasting legacy as this, that can provide benefits for the children of Liverpool for hundreds of years to come, should not be put off by our current UK recession ... which in the greater scheme of things will merely pass into history. To this end, I have purchased the wood and have enough of everything at least to get started." ... Michael Phoenix.

You can still be part of the legacy whether you are able to be involved in the making of the instruments or not. You could help towards the cost of the wood, tools and the training of the participants by making a donation online.

Donors (unless requested otherwise) will be documented in the

official Scouservarius Legacy Project leather-bound guest book along with the names of the participants and the work they did in the making of the violins,

viola and cello ... thank you.

Further donations from the programme sales at the Katona Twins concert and private donations have increased the fund to £429. These donations have been gratefully received. Also all proceeds from the 'Music from the Movies' concert scheduled for 4th October 2013 will be donated to the project ... the Liverpool Quartet Trust thank the Liverpool String Quartet for this most generous gesture.

The very first donation to the Scouservarius Project, of £220, was made by Linda McDermott (presenter of Late Night Live on BBC Radio Merseyside) and Minerva Women's Group during the interval of a BBC 'Children In Need' charity concert at the Bluecoat, featuring the Liverpool String Quartet, Johnny Kennedy (Tenor), Su Grainger & Caroline Kimmance (singers) and Syd 'the banjo' Smith and Dr. James Kingsland OBE (ukulele wizards!).

This kind donation will now enable us to weigh and select the wood for the fronts and to start making the templates for each of the four instruments.

On Friday 26th October 2012 the Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Sharon Sullivan, officially launched the 'Scouservarius Legacy Project' at the Bluecoat in Liverpool city centre.
The Lord Mayor split the first billet of spruce (violin front) to symbolise the beginning of the process to make 'The Liverpool Quartet'.

A concert was performed by the musicians of the Liverpool String Quartet following the launch and the audience were invited to recite the 'Luthier's Promise' poem and split the remaining billets which will go to make the four instruments.
The concert was generously compered by BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Linda McDermott, a great champion of local craftsmanship and all things Liverpool.

The project is an idea born on 4th June 2003 - the day Liverpool were awarded The European Capital of Culture title for 2008. ‘The Scouservarius Legacy Project’ is simply the commissioning of the people of Liverpool to build ‘The Liverpool Quartet’ - two violins, a viola and cello.

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