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Activities for ages 9+

Meet the orchestra, create music using only your body as an instrument or go on a musical adventure in space!
All that jazz
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All that jazz

Let’s find out about the fascinating history of the musical genre of jazz.

All that jazz
Discover the planets
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Discover the planets

Discover Gustav Holst’s music inspired by the planets and learn more about our solar system.

Discover the planets
Mindful Mozart
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Mindful Mozart

Explore how music can influence our mood and take part in our mindful Mozart meditation.

Mindful Mozart
Do you know your Verdi?
Two teenage boys play trumpets surrounded by the acoustic panelling of a music studio

Do you know your Verdi?

Discover one of the greatest opera composer and learn Italian words.

Do you know your Verdi?
A mambo from West Side Story

A mambo from West Side Story

Meet Leonard Bernstein and learn the moves to his famous ‘mambo’ from West Side Story

A mambo from West Side Story
A musical adventure in space

A musical adventure in space

Learn more about Richard Strauss and a piece he wrote which was used in a famous film set in space

A musical adventure in space
Body percussion
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Body percussion

Join us as we learn about different body percussion styles and have a go at making our own performances

Body Percussion
Meet the orchestra
Children singing in a choir

Meet the orchestra

Learn more about all the different musical instruments which make an orchestra and have go at conducting

Meet the Orchestra
Pitch Perfect
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Pitch Perfect

Learn a folk pop song from the 1930s which featured in a Hollywood film and have a go at performing it yourself with cups

Pitch Perfect
Rock 'n' roll around
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Rock 'n' roll around

Sing a rock ’n’ roll song and learn about blues music, scat singing and hand jive

Rock 'n' roll around
Meet the chorus
Children singing in a choir

Meet the chorus

Explore the range of voices you can hear in an opera chorus and have a go at singing like an opera singer

Meet the Chorus
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