N.B. news: Dan Brown moved by youth orchestra performances [Video]

Dan Brown is known worldwide for being the bestselling author of the “The Da Vinci Code” but people may not know he is also a longtime composer of music.

Brown’s “Wild Symphony” concert and accompanying picture book brought him to the Maritimes this week.

He performed three shows in Moncton, N.B., Tuesday, narrating the production with the Sistema New Brunswick Children’s Orchestra.

Brown says he grew up wanting to be a musician as his mother was a professional musician and his father was a singer.

“We had no television, my parents said, ‘We want you to play music and read books,’ and that’s what I did,” he told CTV Atlantic’s Todd Battis during an interview Tuesday.

“My fondest memories as a kid were listening to my mom’s classical record collection and reading picture books. And, at some point, I wanted to create that similar experience for young people and that’s really what …