Pupils from five primary schools were treated to a fantastic musical experience with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra’s residency at Hull City Hall is allowing us to build up great links with these fantastic musicians and provide inspiring workshops and performances for Hull pupils. A team of players from the orchestra and a workshop leader ran a 2 hour workshop in St Charles, Collingwood and Pearson primary schools where pupils learnt a percussion accompaniment to the theme from Indiana Jones. Each school also created an original response to the music iincluding sound effects, a song and a percussion composition, which they all shared together in the City Hall before the orchestral rehearsal. Starting with body percussion, pupils learnt the parts for the piece. They also learnt some of the vital skills of being a musician, watching, listening and working together. The result was a wonderful performance involving nearly 100 completely focused pupils all learnt and rehearsed in just 2 hours.
Pupils from Wheeler Primary and Southcoates Primary had the opportunity to have a meet a player session with trumpet player Adam. They found out how the trumpet works and heard some of the John Williams themes from the concert then they asked a lot of brilliant questions.
All 150 pupils then watched the orchestra rehearse. They heard many familiar film favourites, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Jurassic Park and of course Indiana Jones, which they couldn’t help joining in with doing their body percussion parts along to the orchestra.
Thanks RPO, we can’t wait until the next concert!
