April 30 - May 6 Listening/Composer Assignment (remember that listening assignments apply to the weeks during which the listening is assigned.)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Composer (listen to all the examples on this page):

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/ComposerDetail.aspx?composerID=27 


And YouTube link (If you aren't crying by the end of the second movement, you need to listen to it again! It's some of the most sublime music in the world ever written)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ud_wGMXRnQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRb90BRB5w&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWF10gP9LQQ&feature=relmfu

Question: What can you remember about Rachmaninoff as we have studied him in the past? Where is he from? Were his hands big or small? What era did he compose in?