Keys, Hands, Feet and Pipes
We are delighted to invite Key Stage 2 children to a free performance at the Ipswich Corn Exchange featuring the organ show Keys, Hands, Feet and Pipes presented by the charismatic and dynamic organist Daniel Moult.
You will experience how the Corn Exchange organ can create anything from the tiniest fluting sound to a mighty rumble which shakes the very seat on which you sit! Dan will show you how he plays not only with his hands, but also with his feet! You will also hear a whistle-stop selection of some of the world’s most famous organ music, providing pupils with the unique opportunity to hear the organs’ music resounding around the Corn Exchange, on what may well be their first visit to a concert hall.
The show will be a multimedia event with lights, smoke, and visual effects, designed specifically to inspire and engage pupils both aurally and visually. The show a will also feature live coverage from inside the organ presented by William Saunders, giving pupils the opportunity to both see and hear how an organ works. We are confident that Dan Moult’s virtuoso performances and infectious enthusiasm will provide a captivating, entertaining and educational experience. The concert will cover various aspects of Key Stage 2 music (simple melodic extension and development, transposition, ostinati, dynamics and tempi etc), science (some basic physics of sound and engineering as seen through a pipe organ) and literacy (advance study of a short story, around which musical excerpts will be based).
The show is sponsored by the Suffolk Organists’ Association and the performances are free to Suffolk School children. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. From past experience of holding similar events in other parts of the country, we are expecting this to be extremely popular occasion. Should you require any further information please contact the event organiser, William Saunders – wrs@ipswich.suffolk.sch.uk.