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Family Music Intro - an event for all the family

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Your introduction to the BBC Proms starts with a free Family Music Intro workshop, introducing the concert's music in an interactive and fun way. Bring along an instrument if you want to play along with the workshop musicians, or just sit back and watch! You'll get a taster of the music you'll hear later on in the main concert by playing or hearing some of the tunes. Workshops are specially designed for children aged 7-plus and their families.

Your day continues at the world-famous BBC Proms, and whether it's Rachmaninov or jazz, piano music or Beethoven that sparks your interest, one thing's certain - by the time you take your seat in the magnificent Royal Albert Hall, you'll know a lot more than you did when you arrived for Family Music Intro!

All Family Music Intro events take place at the Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music.

 Listen to Proms Plus events from the last 7 days

Thursday 7 August, 5.45pm - before Prom 28
Includes Dvořák and Smetana
Join the Ulster Orchestra for a concert that will take you on a journey from Ireland to 19th century Czechoslovakia. Howard Ferguson's lively Overture for an Occasion kicks things off, and later on you'll experience the sights and sounds of the River Vltava with Smetana and experience Dvořák's lively Eighth Symphony.

Saturday 9 August, 5.15pm - before Prom 31
Includes Gershwin, Stravinsky and Bernstein
All of tonight's composers combine the worlds of jazz and classical music. After listening to Gershwin's well-known melodies and new works by young jazz musicians Gwilym Simcock and Jason Yarde, you'll leave the Hall buzzing with inspiring tunes and rhythms!

Saturday 23 August, 4.45pm - before Prom 49
Includes Rachmaninov and Copland
Discover the New World in this concert of works from America, including Copland's Third Symphony, which includes a version of the American classic Fanfare for the Common Man, and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.4, which was composed in the USA.

Wednesday 27 August, 5.15pm - before Prom 55
Includes Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Ravel
Tonight's concert will have you enjoying a balmy Mediterranean afternoon with Debussy, soaring through the sky with Vaughan Williams, dancing in Ancient Greece with Ravel and travelling into space in a new violin concerto written by tonight's conductor for the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia.

Sunday 31 August, 2.15pm - before Prom 60
Includes Mozart, Debussy, Schubert and Chopin
Classical superstar Lang Lang's name translates as 'brilliant man'. Join him for this family-friendly solo recital for the bank holiday weekend, featuring well-known music by some of the piano's greatest composers - and a duet performance with the extraordinary 9-year-old pianist Lang Lang has called 'little Mozart', Marc Yu.

Monday 1 September, 5.15pm - before Prom 62
Beethoven and Sibelius
Brimming with sparkling tunes, Beethoven's Violin Concerto has been described by tonight's soloist as the 'ultimate challenge'. Can he rise to the occasion? Come along and find out! The concerto is followed by Sibelius' Symphony No.2, one of the greatest Finnish works ever written.

Wednesday 3 September, 5.30pm - before Prom 65
Brahms and Shostakovich
Tonight you'll hear one of the world's best orchestras perform two of its favourite symphonies: Brahms's richly romantic Symphony No.3, and Shostakovich's powerful Symphony No.10, which was written just months after the death of Stalin.

HOW TO BOOK
All tickets cost £5 - each ticket includes entry to the Family Music Intro event at the Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music and entry to the concert afterwards at the Royal Albert Hall. To apply for £5 tickets call 0845 401 5040* and ask for Music Intro tickets.

WHO CAN BOOK MUSIC INTRO TICKETS?
The BBC Proms Music Intro scheme is aimed at families with children aged 7-16 years old. At least one member of the group must be under the age of 16. Each party of three or fewer people must include one person between the ages of 7 and 16, and each party of four or more people must include two persons between the ages of 7 and 16.

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