Saturday Spectacular
Last Saturday I attended "Saturday Spectacular: Wheels,Wings and Waves", Southbank Sinfonia's children's concert at Cadogan Hall. A concert held in the morning with the opportunity for children to spend some time beforehand indulging in some craft themed activities. The concert was fun and the music well played and excellently thought out. It's always a plus to bring some of the children on stage for musical fun, and this was done, in fact it proved quite popular, at one stage I thought all the children would end up on stage!
Informal introductions to the instruments were made, and the fact that each section wore differently coloured t-shirts was a good idea. I could see that the musicians enjoyed the concert too,, getting into the spirit of things with renditions of "Happy birthday" and "The Locomotion". Light hearted music aside, musically they did not disappoint: playing themes from "Pirates of the Caribbean" , Ron Goodwin's "Those magnificent men in their flying machines" and "633 Squadron". Prokofiev's Troika, a piece familiar to many at Christmas was wonderful and no doubt many children went away no having learnt something new from hearing the longer version of this piece.
The only thing that I felt didn't quite work was the screening of the Night Train film, alongside W.H Auden's poem. Childrens attention spans can be short and I felt the film wasn't attention grabbing enough for the children. Despite this I can recommend the Southbank Sinfonia Saturday Spectaculars, as a fun and educational way to keep the little'uns happy. Recommended for all children between the ages of 4-10.
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Tickets for both concert are: Children £6, adults £8, four tickets £22. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea schools- one child goes free with every adult.
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