BBC Ten Pieces in Concert with Royal Northern Sinfonia
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Discover. Be Inspired. Travel through time.
Ready to get your class into Classical? This special schools concert taking place on Tuesday 4 March, is just the ticket to bring inspiration to your term.
Who’s playing?
Ellie Slorach, conductor
YolanDa Brown, presenter
Royal Northern Sinfonia
What are they playing?
Marianne von Martinez Overture in C Major
Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto, Movement 3
Errollyn Wallen Mighty River
Aaron Copland Hoedown
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Margaret Bonds Montgomery Variations: March and Dawn
Laura Shigihara Grasswalk from Plants vs. Zombies
Igor Stravinsky Finale from The Firebird Suite
What’s happening in the music?
Bespoke concerts for school groups open up the world of classical music to children and inspire their creativity. Explore the BBC Ten Pieces, performed live by our orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia, with plenty of opportunities for our interaction led by our expert and friendly presenters, YolanDa and Ellie.
Step inside our great Glasshouse time machine and travel through the ages right up to the present day, discovering music that broke boundaries, inspires hope, and makes you want to dance. You’ll hear pieces from the vast BBC Ten Pieces library, including music from the latest collection (released October 2024) written exclusively by women, enabling us to get creative with fantastic classical music while also improving representation of women composers on the stage and in the classroom.
The programme includes Shigihara’s Grasswalk from the game Plants vs Zombies and Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations, which was written in response to the American Civil Rights Movement and tells the story of what it means to stand up for your beliefs. Marianne von Martinez achieved success completely unexpected of women in 18th Century Vienna. Discover Martinez’s charismatic Overture alongside perhaps the most well-known piece in the trumpet repertoire by her friend and mentor, Joseph Haydn.
We hope you’ll feel full of life and hope with Boulanger’s ‘On a Spring Morning’ and are ready to dance your way through Copland’s energetic and dramatic Hoedown – we think it’s impossible to keep still! You’ll also hear music by Errollyn Wallen, one of the most-performed living composers and the first black woman to have her music performed at the BBC Proms, and the equally groundbreaking Igor Stravinsky.
Suitable For:
Key Stage 2 and 3.
Group size at performance* and price
£105 for up to 15 people. (max 5 additional people at £5.50 per head)
£200 for up to 35 people. (max 8 additional people at £5.50 per head)
£350 for up to 70 people. (or £4.50 per ticket for groups of over 70 people)
Gateshead school 10% discount:
A 10% discount will be added to the final bill for any school in the Gateshead Local Authority Area.
*Total number to include both students and staff.
Your Booking includes:
Tuesday 4 March – Concert
Choice of 10.30am or 1pm performance (60 minutes) by Royal Northern Sinfonia, in Sage One at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead
Resource access:
Specially created online resource platform from BBC Ten Pieces and The Glasshouse, including videos, curriculum links, and activities, to help you continue the music in the classroom.
BBC Ten Pieces is a music education initiative for students aged 7-14, it launched in 2014 and is the biggest commitment the BBC has ever made to music education.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
BOOKING CLOSES: TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2025
Submission of this form is not a confirmation of your booking.
Booking requests can come in quickly, and sometimes we can’t update our forms fast enough. We’ll be in touch as soon as we can to let you know if your requested day & time was successful.
If your request is successful:
Booking confirmation:
You will receive an email confirmation of your booking request within 14 days of submitting your form. This will secure your spaces at the concert.
If you do not hear from us in the first 14 days, please get in touch schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org to ensure nothing has got lost.
You will then receive a booking order confirmation email from our Box Office team by Friday 13th December, or within one month of your booking if you enrol after this.
Invoicing for the project will aim to take place before the end of January 2025.
Cancellation:
Please inform us in writing at schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org as soon as you can if you wish to cancel your booking request.
Cancellation charges:
Cancellation charges will apply from 10 February 2025 onwards.
0% on or before 9 February 2025, 50% on or before 16 February 2025, 100% thereafter.
Changes to bookings: Once the project has begun, small changes can be made to your booking by emailing schoolbookings@theglasshouseicm.org. Significant changes other than cancellation, which may reduce your fee or greatly increase the number of seats you require, will be looked at on a case by case basis.