Cork Pops Orchestra: using monkey business to teach kids music

This week, Cork City Hall will resound to schoolchildren discovering the beauty of classical music and the instruments that create it.

Gerry Kelly and Evelyn Grant have been presenting the Schools Concert Series for young people for 20 years.

Classroom resources or teachers’ notes, and a CD, are provided so that children can be introduced to the programme or enjoy it again afterwards and discuss it. Kelly and Grant also have a website where teachers and parents can access the music and follow links to YouTube illustrations.