• Conductor Antony Hopkins rehearsing the Reading Youth Orchestra for the Land of Hope & Glory finale of the 1988 Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
  • Northants Schools Concert Band, 1988.
  • Cheltenham Ladies College Choir, National Festival of Music for Youth, 1981.
  • The Duchess of Gloucester meeting a couple of young performers at the 1984 Schools Prom, Royal Albert Hall, London.
  • The instrument is a viola da gamba, the ancestor of the cello.
  • Wakefield Brass, 1981.
  • Jenny's Accordionists, 1981.
  • Wallace Fields Primary School, 1981.
  • Solihull Brass, 1981.
  • 1981
  • 1981
  • Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra, 1982.
  • Kincorth Waits, 1984.
    The instrument is a sub-contrabass recorder.
    Cet instrument est une flûte à bec sous-contrebasse.
  • Surrey Schools Youth Orchestra, 1984.
    The alto flute is longer than the more common concert flute.
    La flûte alto est plus longue que la flûte traversière habituelle.
  • Orchestral Steel, 1984.
  • In 1984, non-white faces in classical orchestras were still few and far between.
  • Scalby School Jazz Orchestra, 1984.
  • South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra (South Wales), 1984.
  • South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra (South Wales), 1984.
  • Winchmore Hill Chamber Orchestra (LOndon), 1984
  • 1984
  • Baden-Powell Middle School Handbell Ringers, 1988.
  • Northampton Music School Sinfonia, 1988
  • Grangetown Primary School Recorder Ensemble (Middlesbrough), 1989
  • Harrow Students Philharmonic Orchestra, 1988.
  • Northampton Music School Sinfonia, 1988
  • Northants Schools Concert Band, 1988.
  • Girls' choir performing in St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1990.
  • Scalby School Jazz Orchestra, 1989
  • Alicia Bardsley Singers (Stockport, Lancs.), 1989.
  • Sandbach High School Jazz Group, 1989
  • Norton's Hot Seven (Ashford, Kent), 1989.
  • Hemel Hempstead School Wind Band, 1991.
  • Dorset Youth Orchestra, 1989.
  • Penrose String Orchestra (Newbury, Berkshire), 1989.
  • Band Arbennig Dwyfor (Gwynedd, South Wales), 1991.
    This group of young mentally handicapped musicians took part several times in the National Festival of Music for Youth and were picked each time to appear in the following Schools Prom. The importance of music therapy cannot be underestimated in this area.
  • Band Arbennig Dwyfor, (Gwynedd South Wales), 1991.
  • Antony Hopkins conducting the "Land of Hope & Glory" finale at one of the Schools Prom concerts.
  • 2006
  • 2006
  • 2006
  • The instrument in the foreground is a contrabass clarinet.
    L'instrument au premier plan est une clarinette contrebasse.
  • Gawthorpe Brass (West Yorkshire).
  • Cleveland Youth Orchestra, 1979.
  • Grampian Percussion Group (Scotland), 1981.
  • Wirral Schools Concert Band, 1987.
  • Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra, 1988.
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