At 1pm the mums, dads and little ones started pouring through the Drill Hall doors (including my high school geography teacher; small world) to see the City of London Sinfonia introduce tiddlers to classical music via the theme of animals at 2pm.
If you know a little about classical music you may recognise some of these pieces:
- The Elephant (from Carnival of the Animals)
- Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky's ballet)
- Fantasia from Greensleeves (by Vaughan-Williams)
- Old Macdonald had a Farm (of course)
...as well as the unnamed piece that transported us between these excerpts when we got on our horses and galloped to the next stop on our musical journey.
Leader of the event Claire Bloor was great at getting the kids jumping up and down, pretending to be animals (there were a couple of small tigers & lions around anyway) and racing each other when they got on their horses.
As well as it being great that the Drill Hall was packed with little ones, it was even more great that they clearly loved it!
-Hilary Shepherd, Marketing Officer