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Battle of Britain: The Turning Point Kids KS2 Show
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
HELP FUND Our 85th Anniversary BATTLE OF BRITAIN Kids Concerts re-telling history with 650 singing school children, accompanied by the RAF!
HELP FUND Our 85th Anniversary BATTLE OF BRITAIN Concerts re-telling living history with 650 singing school children.
In this 80th anniversary year of the end of WW2 we will perform two sell-out performances of ‘Battle of Britain: The Turning Point’ performed by 650 London primary school children.
The musical piece, composed by Richard Brown (20 years Director of Music at the Royal Shakespeare Company), incorporates an amazingly colourful score written for orchestra, professional narrators and massed children’s voices, with lyrics and script by Fern Dickson and Sarah Harding.
Professional actors Jonathan Eio and Annabelle Brown will narrate the story of a young Spitfire pilot and his sister, a Radar operator, re-telling in song the Battle of Britain, The Blitz and the consequent effect of WW2 upon the UK and her allies.
Under the baton of RAF Principal Music Director, Wing Commander Richard Murray, musicians from the both the fantastic Central Band of the RAF & Duchess of Edinburgh String Orchestra combine will provide the live musical accompaniment by kind arrangement with RAF Music and Army Music.
Educational outcomes are significant, with all audience children performing as a massed choir, live with the actors. Since the beginning of term, they have studied 12 songs with their school music teachers, covering significant WW2 topics such as: The Blitz, Spitfires & Hurricanes, Learning to Fly, Evacuees and Refugees, Digging for Britain & Rationing, Kindertransport, Hunting for Spies, Radio & Radar, the Final Battle and the Final Peace. They have also received in-school history and vocal workshops.
Both shows are sold out and will be attended by a total of 650 children and their teachers from 10 London state primary schools. However, production costs are far in excess of ticket revenues for this age group.
The project will provide a unique opportunity, in this 80th Anniversary Year of the end of WW2, to engage children with their city’s recent past, fostering a sense of shared history and identity.
The performances will also instil in a new cohort of young Londoners a sense of connection and awareness with and of our armed forces and will learn about the contribution our Armed Forces make to our national life and/or the opportunity and possibility of careers in them.
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