The stage is set. At the back there is a 16m broad stairway of 6 to 8 steps on which 350 children stand throughout the performance. They are arranged according to their singing voices, with 40-60 of them , who have been trained in part-singing, forming a filled half-circle in the middle, and the rest standing on both sides...The Bigband composed of 20 musicians sits at downstage left with the vocal soloists to the right.

The children in the center section wear bright yellow T Shirts; the groups on each side are dressed in bright orange T shirts and the Bigband musicians are in red T.shirts. With the bright lighting, the appearance is like a colorful sunrise as they greet the new millenium with original music especially composed for children’s chorus, bigband and vocal soloists.

The concert opens with a rhythmic circus-type march with the refrain, "Tikke-tak, tikke-tak-tak"...the clock is ticking...2000 , a magical number with 3 zeros.. The song which follows is about the week and how it goes by. It starts as a jazzy tune that changes to rock.

The third song is a hymn to nature, the woods and the sea, and tells how we must take care of our natural heritage.. The tempo is 3/4, and is in a Nordic fusion style.. The first 2 verses feature a child soloist..

The next song is about money. The music is a cabaret-like tango, the words, an ironic comment about how the world is controlled by money, and there is not anything that can be done about it! ‘ In Denmark, we will have to give up our kroner and start to use the euro’. The soloists dance a 24 bar tango down stage as the children clap the rhythm in accompaniment to the music of the big band..

The fifth piece is in the form of a 6 part double round and the words and music are especially engaging. Written in a pop-ballade style, the big band also has a singing part.

The tempo changes again in the next number. It is a jazz-waltz " Mobbing". The lyrics have to do with the subject of children rudely taunting a fellow student who is a computer "nerd". It makes us aware that children aren’t always well-behaved and are sometimes cruel to one another..

The following song is a slow blues about love and and friendship, featuring the two vocal solists in a lilting duet. A guitar as well as a trumpet and an alto-sax are soloing while the bigband is filling in with backgrounds.

The last is a symphonic Afro-rock movement, with lyrics about future challenges: cyberspace, gene-splicing, etc. The finale is a romping reprise of the entire suite.

The entire concert fills a very entertaining hour, not only with memorable tunes, but with clever rhymes and lyrics, the whole staged with interesting background lighting and spotlighting as well as choreographed movements by the children’s chorus.