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Musical Museum
Wednesday 29 July from 11am
at The Bridgewater Hall
Events with this symbol require a ticket

Morning

Lunchtime

Orchestra Experience

11.00am-1.00pm Auditorium
Join members of the Piccadilly Symphony for an onstage
orchestral extravaganza. Open to players of all orchestral
instruments, play parts from pre-grade 1 to grade 4-5
so that everybody can play their part in a massed
performance of Beethovens resounding Symphony No.5
and Stravinskys beautiful Firebird Suite some of the
BBCs Ten Pieces shown to primary schools nationally
this year.

Enjoy a Southern style menu suitable for the whole family

from Stalls Caf Bar.

Non-players can drop in to the Auditorium on Choir Circle

level to see a rehearsal in progress, or to cheer the players
on!

Afternoon

Be Hear Now

11.00-11.45am Barbirolli Room

A relaxed concert for people with special educational
needs and their families. Taking place in our second
space, this is a performance where the audience is free
to move, take part and respond to top quality live music
in their own unique style. All spaces and activities
throughout the day are fully accessible*, so stay after
the performance and explore for as long as you wish!
*some areas visited by tours are accessible only by 2 flights of stairs

Instrument zones

Strum along on guitar or ukulele, or add your voice to

the harmony in a singing session
Guitar and ukulele
Circle View
Workshop 11.30am-12.15pm

Drop in until 1.00pm

Singing
Barbirolli Room
Workshop 12.15-1.00pm

Drop in until 1.30pm

Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra

1.30-2.00pm Stalls Foyer

Enjoy a live performance in Stalls Foyer by Piccadilly
Symphony Orchestra, playing popular film tunes from
movies across the generations.

Instrument zones

The orchestral instruments come out to play, with chance

to meet players and try members of the brass, strings and
percussion sections.
Brass
Circle Foyer
Workshop 2.30-3.15pm

Drop in until 4.30pm

Strings
Circle Foyer
Workshop 3.15-4.00pm

Drop in from 2.30-4.30pm

Percussion
Barbirolli Room
Workshop 4.00-5.00pm

Drop in from 2.30pm

Conduct me

2.00-3.00pm & 4.00-5.00pm Stalls Foyer

Can you bring the frozen players to life? Pick up a baton
and see if you can get them playing in time!

Evening
Singing on Circle

The Bridgewater Hall Singers
6.00pm Circle Foyer
Debut performance from our very own choir
A Beautiful Thing
6.30pm Stalls Foyer
Beautiful love songs with exquisite vocal harmonies

Try out our Steinway

Choir Circle
Try out our Steinway piano, with a pianist on hand to help
you out with any tricky fingerwork or to teach you your
first tune.

Arts Award Discover Certificate

Choir Circle
Gain an Arts Award Discover certificate in just one day
as you take part in the arts, meet artists and share your
discoveries.

The McCrary Sisters

Musical Bunting

The Sisters have long been the go-to gospel singers in

Music City, featured heavily on Buddy Miller and Patty
Griffins spiritual albums as well as singing with Dr John,
Bob Dylan, The Mavericks, Solomon Burke, Bonnie Prince
Billy and a huge host of other top-tier roots, soul, gospel
and Americana artists.

Mini-tours

7.30pm Auditorium
For Nashvilles McCrary Sisters, music is a birthright,
a lifelong love affair, an indescribable joy, and
occasionally, a cross to bear.

All Day
Mini Cinema and Storytelling

Charles Hall Room

Chill out in our mini cinema, showing musical films
including BBC Ten Pieces and Disneys Fantasia. In the
afternoon, enjoy live musical storytelling for audiences of
all ages.
11.00am BBC Ten Pieces
CBBC favourites introduce ten inspiring orchestral
extracts
11.50am Fantasia
Walt Disneys groundbreaking 1940 animation, including
Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerors Apprentice
2.00pm The Bridgewater Hall organ
Jonathan and Tom Scott explore the Halls magnificent
Marcussen organ
2.15pm The Unhappy Aardvark
A short musical tale, with narration and live wind
instruments

Choir Circle
Add your favourite instrument to a string of musical
bunting, which well display at the Hall in our new season.

Stall Foyer
Mini-tours of the building take you deep down to our
weird undercroft, where springs protect the music
from the sounds of the city outside; backstage to artists
changing areas, and into the main auditorium, where
youll see the stage being set up for the evening concert
and learn how a performance comes together.
Meet and sign up in Stalls Foyer
11.00am-1.00pm Drop into the Auditorium on Choir
Circle level to see an orchestral rehearsal in progress, and
meet our tour guides to find out whats going on
11.30am Acoustic tour find out why the building
is built on giant springs, and visit them in our weird
undercroft
12.15pm Backstage tour a trip behind the scenes, to
see the dressing rooms used by top performers
1.00pm Acoustic tour
1.30pm Backstage tour
2.00pm Auditorium tour visit the auditorium as the
technicians set up for this evenings McCrary Sisters
concert, and find out how our space works for different
musical styles
2.30pm Acoustic tour

2.25pm BBC Ten Pieces

3.00pm Backstage tour

2.50pm Hansel and Gretel

The famous fairytale, told using narration and live wind
instruments

3.30pm Auditorium tour

3.15pm BBC Ten Pieces

4.30pm Auditorium tour a sneak preview of the

McCrary Sisters as they soundcheck

3.40pm Peter and the Wolf

Prokofievs musical favourite, told by wind ensemble and
narrator
4.00pm Fantasia

4.00pm Acoustic tour