For Families
For Families Calendar
By Year
Sat 14 Jul 2012
- 13:30Royal College of Music
Bring your family to join professional singers in favourite songs from My Fair Lady. Ideal for family members aged 7-plus.
Sat 21 Jul 2012
- 14:00Royal College of Music
Beethoven Family Orchestra and Chorus, with a little bit of Boulez!
- 17:30Royal College of Music
A live musical introduction perfect for all the family, with Rachel Leach and professional musicians. Bring your instrument and join in!
Wed 25 Jul 2012
- 17:30Royal College of Music
Rachel Leach takes you on a family-friendly whistle-stop tour of the evening Prom with live musical examples. Bring your instrument and join in.
Thu 26 Jul 2012
- 17:00Royal College of Music
Join Rachel Leach and discover the stories behind the music, learn about the composers and perform alongside musicians from the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Bring your instrument and join in.
Sun 29 Jul 2012
- 11:00Royal College of Music
Join the Family Orchestra and Chorus in creating its own Wallace & Gromit soundtrack!
- 13:30Royal College of Music
Join the Family Orchestra and Chorus in creating its own Wallace & Gromit soundtrack!
- 15:30Royal Albert Hall
Wallace & Gromit appear in a new Proms adventure, before a screening of A Matter of Loaf and Death 鈥� plus classical favourites.
Wallace & Gromit appear in a new Proms adventure, before a screening of A Matter of Loaf and Death 鈥� plus classical favourites.
Programme
- Fanfare for the Common Man(4 mins)
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine(5 mins)
- Clair de Lune (arr. Caplet)(5 mins)
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor(5 mins)Fugue from first movement
- My Concerto in Ee, Lad(5 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere
- interval
- A Matter of Loaf and Death(30 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere
Performers
- Tasmin Littleviolin
- Nicholas Collonconductor
Tue 31 Jul 2012
- 17:00Royal College of Music
Members of the 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales explore music by four great British composers. Bring your instrument and join in!
Sun 5 Aug 2012
- 13:00Royal College of Music
Join the Proms team in this special event inspired by The Angry Planet, ending in a performance. Family members can join Proms Plus Sing or Proms Plus Family Orchestra, which will join forces for the performance.
- 13:00Royal College of Music
Join the Proms team in this special event inspired by The Angry Planet, ending in a performance. Family members can join Proms Plus Sing or Proms Family Orchestra, which will join forces for the performance.
- 16:30Royal Albert Hall
Bob Chilcott鈥檚 cantata The Angry Planet deploys massed choirs and schoolchildren from across London to voice an ecological theme.
Bob Chilcott鈥檚 cantata The Angry Planet deploys massed choirs and schoolchildren from across London to voice an ecological theme.
Programme
- The Angry Planet(45 mins)world premiere
- Flame(4 mins)
Performers
- Laurie Ashworthsoprano
- Children鈥檚 Choirs from London Boroughs (Harrow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea & Westminster)
- David Hillconductor
Composers
Sun 12 Aug 2012
- 11:00Royal College of Music
Join the first Proms Family Wind Band, creating and performing a new piece!
Tue 14 Aug 2012
- 17:00Royal College of Music
Join Rachel Leach and play alongside musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to discover the history behind the evening鈥檚 concert.
Mon 20 Aug 2012
- 17:30Royal College of Music
Journey through the music of this evening鈥檚 Prom in a family-friendly introduction with Fraser Trainer. Bring along your instrument and join in.
Wed 22 Aug 2012
- 17:00Royal College of Music
Join Rachel Leach, musicians from the LSO and Director of the Royal Ballet Monica Mason for an interactive introduction to the music of Cinderella. Ideal for all the family. Bring your instrument and join in.
Mon 27 Aug 2012
- 15:00Royal College of Music
We're looking for musical families to come and perform at the 麻豆社 Proms as part of the Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus!
- 15:00Royal Albert Hall
A family-friendly global musical journey, with popular classics from Delius, Falla and others, plus Milo拧 Karadagli膰, Blind Boys of Alabama and Hari Vrndavn Sivanesan.
A family-friendly global musical journey, with popular classics from Delius, Falla and others, plus Milo拧 Karadagli膰, Blind Boys of Alabama and Hari Vrndavn Sivanesan.
Programme
- Slavonic Dance in C major, Op 46, No 1(4 mins)
- On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring(6 mins)
- Postcard from India and Sri Lanka(8 mins)
- El amor brujo 鈥� Ritual fire dance(4 mins)
- Concierto de Aranjuez - Adagio(12 mins)
- L'Arl茅sienne, Suite no. 2 - Farandole(3 mins)
- interval
- Wish You Were Here(10 mins)
- People get ready, arr. Jason Yarde(3 mins)
- Take the High Road (arr. Jason Yarde)(3 mins)
- Amazing Grace, arr. Jason Yarde(3 mins)
- Down By The Riverside, arr. Jason Yarde(3 mins)
Performers
- Stephen Bellconductor
- Milo拧 Karadagli膰guitar
- Proms Family Orchestra
- Lincoln Abbottsdirector
Also part ofProms 2012
Tue 28 Aug 2012
- 13:00Royal College of Music
A great way to explore opera for the first time with the Glyndebourne Opera Land team. Suitable for 12- to 18-year-olds.
