The winner of a writing competition launched by the CBSO last month has been named as eight-year-old Nyall Hussain, of Dickens Heath Primary School, Birmingham.
The competition was set up to celebrate the arrival of top children’s author Michael Rosen who compered a family concert at Symphony Hall, and is best known for his book We’re Going On A Bear Hunt.
The competition, judged by Michael Rosen, Birmingham Post features editor Sarah Probert, BBC WM presenter Richard Wilson and members of the CBSO orchestra, asked budding writers to compose a special, orchestra-themed poem to coincide with the interactive family concert. Here is the winning entry:
We’re going to the orchestra
We’re not getting our head in a tuba
It’s so dark and gloomy in the hall
We’re scared of the dark (tremble)
Uh oh violins all stacked
Big screechy violins
We can’t smash them we can’t go under them
The only choice is… play them
Screeeech
We’re going to the orchestra
We’re not getting our head in a tuba
It’s so dark and gloomy in the hall
We’re scared of the dark Doh
Big banging drums all surrounding us
But we get the best view
Trip bang trip bang
Michael Rosen said: “For poetry to work there has to be an element of surprise, some sense of newness. If you have a sense that something’s been said before, it takes the edge off it.”