A Musical Menagerie

This unique family-friendly concert featuring music about the animal kingdom includes a range of innovative and entertaining music from Surrey Brass.  As well as real animals, the programme also includes music about mythical and fantastic beasts, those imaginary animals that excite us all so much. Some music will be very familiar, whilst other pieces will be completely new to you. The concert is specially scheduled at a convenient time for families and young children. Why not give your children a live music experience? With music ranging from dinosaurs to dragons, there will be music with bite that is sure to appeal to everyone.

The music will be linked by an ingenious and engaging story, woven on the spot by Phil McDermott, Storyteller.

As a special bonus, all concert goers have the opportunity to visit the magnificent "Gaia" exhibition before, during or after the concert at no extra cost. Created by artist Luke Jerram and featuring surround sound composition by BAFTA award-winning composer, Dan Jones, Gaia is awe-inspiring. Measuring seven metres in diameter and suspended inside the Landmark Arts Centre, Gaia makes use of high-resolution NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface.

If you have already been to one of the Christmas Concerts presented by Surrey Brass at the Landmark, you will know how majestic brass music sounds in this this magnificent venue.
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Concert Programme

Whether real or imaginary animals, there is great music written about both and we are busy selecting the very best family-friendly favourites to play for you. Surrey Brass mixes up music from familiar movies together with favourite and familiar music from the classical repertoire, sprinkling in new and inspiring music you may not have heard before.

To whet your musical appetite, the following music is likely to appear on the programme, with further updates soon:

• Theme from "Born Free"  by John Barry
• Theme from "The Lion King" by Don Harper
• Theme from "Jurassic Park" by John Williams
• "The Bluebird"  by Charles Villiers Stanford
• "Animal" from "Brass Energy" by Barry Forgie
• "I Wanna Be Like You" from "The Jungle Book" music by Louis Prima
• One or more movements from "Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns

If you have a favourite piece of animal-themed music you'd like to hear, we'd love to hear from you! Please Contact us and tell us why you would like to hear it.

Surrey Brass is conducted by Jonathan Spencer.