Full marks to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for this first family concert. An alphabet of composers is an old formula, but when A is for Andriessen and Z for Zappa we are not talking easy-peasy.

Ensembles as well as orchestras find themselves required to create their future audiences now. Here, the perception that young children are familiar with sophisticated video techniques informed a performance that mixed images and sound with a strong element of theatre to create a constantly intriguing spectacle.

In Tansy Davies' lively piece Inside Out 2, the process of being on the outside looking in was made nicely surreal. The visual exploration of a small model of a home with chess-like plotting of characters and furniture was used to reflect the technical intricacies of her musical construction.

A neat segue into John Woolrich's new piece found his percussion effects realised by a full batterie de cuisine: sink, graters, enamel teapot, upturned dustbin, its lid used as a suspended cymbal. All helped the lively rhythms and brassy, jazzy sounds register with wit and immediacy. Woolrich's title An Open Door suggests that engaging kids' interest in contemporary music should not be a big deal.

For sheer impact, nothing could beat Xenakis's Rebonds for percussion and the horn solo from Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles, named Interstellar for the occasion, heard from the highest gallery of the CBSO Centre, with a full moon magically projected in a night sky. More, please!