‘I’ve never seen one in real life’: orchestra wows young audience in Great Yarmouth

BBC Concert Orchestra residency aims to inspire children and improve wellbeing in Norfolk town

Ten-year-old Fabian usually listens to pop and rock music at home in Great Yarmouth, but watching the BBC's Concert Orchestra live on stage, it was the calming notes of the violin that were his favourite.

Like many of the 200 pupils in the audience, it was his first experience of live orchestral music, and he was thrilled by it. From Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture - with plenty of interactive elements thrown in - the year five pupils listened intently to over an hour of music.