Today's story is about what's called a promenade concert, or proms for short. Some classical musicians from the Sydney Opera House are visiting a small country town to play for young children.


LITTLE BOY: We came with our mum.

CHILDREN: (All in unison) Music!

Baby proms.

A concert.

Excited!

We're bringing the theme of classical music playing to our regional tour.

We're teaching the children about the various instruments, the sounds of the instruments of the orchestra and which sections they belong to.

So it's more your traditional proms.

WOMAN: Are you ready for a great show this morning?

CHILDREN: (In unison) Yeah.

WOMAN: Great.

We've got a very important person who is waiting to meet you all.

And he's called our conductor and his name is George and he won't come out until you all give him a great big round of applause.

So let's all give him a clap.

GEORGE ELLIS: Thank you very much everybody.

Good morning Holbrook, We would like to perform a piece for you at the moment.

It is called 'The Marriage of Figaro' overture by Mozart and this is the Sydney Opera House Proms Orchestra.

We're playing the classics like Mozart and Strauss and Grieg and Shostakovich.

We're also playing the tried-and-true classic, 'Bob the Builder'.

There's nothing like seeing the enlightened face of a child once they've realised something new or they've heard a different sound for the very first time or they're standing up and dancing and clapping to a song for the first time.

My favourite moment is when we select a child from the audience to come and conduct the orchestra.

That is priceless and when the orchestra followed that little conductor, that little maestro of three or four years old -- males, females, boys, girls -- it's wonderful to me, that's a magic moment and I look around to the parents as the child's conducting the orchestra.

It's magic.

I can't describe it any other way.