Hundreds of Gwent youngsters will head for London next week to perform an ambitious new work at the Last Night of the School Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.
Gwent Music Support Service looking to explore the Welsh heritage and identity of the area and uses around 800 musicians and choristers from schools and music groups.
They will be spread into a number of ensembles around the hall performing several parts of the piece's four movements and coming together for an explosive last movement.
he work involves a choir of 550, made up of pupils from primary and secondary schools in Newport, Cwmbran, Ebbw Vale, Tredegar, Raglan, Caldicot, Caerleon, Rogerstone and Pontypool, and members of Greater Youth and Torfaen Music Centre Gospel Choirs.
Eighty trumpeters and 40 trombonists will also perform, along with African drummers, percussionists, timpanists, a Celtic band, the Great Gwent Cello and Bass Ensemble, harpists, flautists, clarinettists, and alto and soprano saxophonists.
The piece will also make use of the Royal Albert Hall organ.
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