When three-year-old Russian drummer Lyonya Shilovsky toddled onto the stage at the New State Concert Hall of Arnold Katz in Novosibirsk last year, the assembled orchestra nodded and smiled at the small child with the big drum sticks.
What happened next made jaws drop.
Watch as Lyonya takes his seat at his tiny drum kit and, without sheet music, leads an orchestra of adult musicians through a rousing section of Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly known as The Can-Can.
