The BBC Concert Orchestra – Musical Roots
Featuring the writer Kate Wakeling, CBeebies’ very own Chris Jarvis, conductor Anna-Maria Helsing and soloist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank this family concert for the BBC Concert Orchestra featured as part of the award-winning Imagine Children’s Festival at London’s Southbank Centre in February 2020.
This concert called young detectives, aged 6+, to come and help the BBC Concert Orchestra solve the mysteries in their musical family tree. Who was the celebrity musician who captivated the court of Marie Antoinette to the infuriation of a struggling Mozart? And why have we never heard of him? What is the most played piece of classical music ever and how many composers have been inspired by it? Who was the mostly self-taught, highly opinionated military man considered the god-father of all 20th century Russian music? And what secret does our conductor Anna-Maria hide?
Working collaboratively with musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing, MishMash Productions produced this fabulous concert featuring music from Aaron Copland, Dmitry Shostakovich, Errolyn Wallen, Astor Piazzolla, Max Richter, and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges to name but a few.
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- Photo by Mark Allan/BBC
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- Photo by Mark Allan/BBC
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