Record

Performance Title	A Celebration of Childhood
Performance Date	7 May 2013
Performance Day	Tuesday
Performance Time	19:00
Orchestra or Band	Southbank Sinfonia
Set List	Act 1 - To Be a Child Film Screening - 'As I Woke Up This Morning', Anthony Grant, 'Once Upon a Time', L Marsh, B Broadley, J Cowdrey, T Morriss, M Lake (Thomas's London Day Schools,), 'I Remember Just Being Small' (All pupils, Lotte Thomas, Freya Owen, Cameron Murray, Lucilla Partridge), 'Sing Us a Story' (Years 2-5), 'Sometimes It's Hard to be Small' (Thomas's Choristers), 'Monsters' (Years 3-5), 'Maybe, Maybe' (Years 6-8), 'The World of my Tomorrow' (All pupils) Act II - Friendship Film Screening - 'Helping Hands - The Thomas's Schools Foundation and The CAIRN Trust', 'Variations on a Children's Theme', A Herron (Thomas's Orchestral musicians), 'Rhapsody in Blue', G Gershwin (John Paul Ekins), Film Screening - 'If', Chris Marshall, 'If', H Blake, Rudyard Kipling (Years 4-8) INTERVAL Act III - 'In My Life', Film Screening - 'All Together Now', C Marshall, The Farm, 'Percussion Fanfare', N Joyce (Thomas's percussionists), 'We Are Amazing', A Grant, 'Toys', Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker Suite' (Thomas's ballerinas and danseurs, Eddy Kembery), 'Michaelmas', 'Children's Gallop', Tchaikovsky (Pupils of Thomas's Clapham), 'Lent', 'Mirlitons', Tchaikovsky (Pupils of Thomas's Fulham), 'Summer', 'Waltz of the Flowers', Tchaikovsky (Pupils of Thomas's Battersea), 'A School is Just a Building', A Grant, 'When I Grow Up', from Matilda, T Minchin (Thomas's drama students, Hannah Drayton), Film Screening - 'Looking Back', Anthony Grant, L Grant, Poem - 'Jim', J Kelham-Hohler, 'In My Life', Lennon, Mccartney (Thomas's Choristers, Souhbank Sinfonia Quartet, Joe James, Kam Tomita), Film Screening - 'Thomas's!', George Grany, Anthony Grant (Garry Boothe, Thomas's Transport), 'Tribute - A Tribute to David and Joanna Thomas, founding principals in their Golden Wedding Anniversary Year', F Syborn, Film Screening - 'David and Joanna', Anthony Grant, 'Dreams Come True', L Grant, Thanks (Ben Thomas, Principal and Headmaster of Thomas's Battersea), Act IV - To Be In This Worlds 'Revolting Children' from Matilda, T Minchin (Tomas's drama students), 'You Give a Little Love' from Bugsy Malone, P Williams, A Parker (Thomas's London Day Schools, members of Thomas's Schools Foundation Community Glee Clubs)
Performance Notes	Thomas's London Day Schools are not strangers to the Royal Albert Hall. The Schools held the "Celebration of Childhood" concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 March 1999. The concert involved 950 pupils from Year 1 to Year 8, supported by 100 academic staff singing three works by Howard Blake and accompanied by the sixty-four strong English Chamber Orchestra, and also a finale by the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas. This event was held to launch a charity "The Thomas's School Foundation". The aims of which are to provide scholarships and to enable the school to initiate community projects. The Foundation is going from strength to strength. Thomas's London Day Schools return in 2013 with a concert that will include a rerun of 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, hopefully conducted by Howard Blake; The Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas; a celebrity parent, an English Orchestra; two pieces of music performed by all 1500 children. All to be organised along the lines of the "A Celebration of Childhood" performance. The event was filmed for DVD.
Related Archival Material	Programme (RAHE/1/2013/32)
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Catalogue

Reference Number	Title	Date
RAHE/1/2013/32	A Celebration of Childhood	7 May 2013

Work

Ref No	Title	No of Performances
Work9012	A Celebration of Childhood	1

Performers

Code	Name of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5764	Southbank Sinfonia; 2002-; British classical orchestra

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