March 5 - March 18 Listening/Composer Assignment (remember that listening assignments apply to the week during which the listening is assigned.)

Engelbert Humperdinck

Composer (You don't have to listen to the music on this website because it is one of the YouTube links this week!):

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/ComposerDetail.aspx?composerID=23

And YouTube link (you can hear parts of the opera in this trailer. Typically Hansel and Gretel are both played by girls in this opera, even though they are a boy and girl in the story):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElHXQdEQuY&feature=related

Question: What is his most famous opera? Do you know this famous fairy tale?