Song Story 2026 – Marvellous Mozart!

News from Jackdaws Music Education Trust.

“Song Story 2026–Marvellous Mozart!” took place in the Spring and Summer terms in 2026. Resources were sent out in advance and then the Song Story team visited each of the 6 participating schools weekly, working with groups to create and build a performance based on the story of famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

91 young people and 34 of their schools’ staff took part in the sessions and they did the final performances to audiences of 217.

The young people developed the performance through movement, acting, playing (instruments) and singing (song writing) tasks. They explored many of Mozart’s most famous tunes, the ones we all sing along with but don’t know why we know them! They wrote and sang some fantastic lyrics for “eine kleine nachtmusik” , which became “We love Mozart, Mozart is the Best”, reported to be ‘a playground ‘banger and being sung all over school!’

They played triangles and body percussion in a rousing Rondo a la Turka and in the overture to the Marriage of Figaro adding tambourines and shakers to the mix. We created lyrics for his 40th symphony which described with great pathos and acting just how poor and cold and starving Mozart was at times of his life. The cold part required magnificant acting skills due to the heatwave experienced during much of our time in schools. Mozart’s horn concerto was our travelling music as we demonstrated how Mozart and his (less mentioned) sister were taken and shown off around Europe by their father. We walked, we made a boat and a horse and cart, and we spoke the languages of several European countries…all while hearing, making, singing and taking ownership of amazing music!