CLS on the road: Crash Bang Wallop! in Chatham

Last night we were at the Brook Theatre in Chatham introducing families to the wonderful world of everything brass!

Before the concert started, we made and decorated percussion instruments with all the children, which they used to join in with the musicians for selected pieces.  As always, our Crash Bang Wallop! presenter, James Redwood was full of energy and enthusiasm and got parents, grandparents and children of all ages, singing and playing along with the CLS musicians.

A highlight of the evening was our principal horn player, Steve Stirling’s demonstration of his hose pipe horn, quite literally a garden hose with at £2 plastic funnel on the end, from which he can make a sound, not dissimilar to that of a french horn! The children were invited up on to the stage to hold onto the hose and feel the vibrations while the quintet performed a specially arranged piece for Brass Quartet and Hose Pipe Horn – surely a first in Chatham, if not the world! 

Hose_pipe_horn

The concert ended with the Quintet accompanying the audience in a round with original lyrics written by the children (it seems pancakes are still on the mind as the whole song was about how delicious they are!) and a final rousing version of I Wanna Be Like You from The Jungle Book which had everyone upon their feet, bopping along.

Gillian
Education Manager 

Catch our next Crash Bang Wallop! Family Concert at Cadogan Hall on Saturday 26 March @ 12noon