January 2 - January 8: Listening Assignment (remember that listening assignments apply to the weeks during which the listening is assigned.)

Guiseppe Verdi

• Read this article about the composer: https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/composers/giuseppe-verdi
• Click the picture of the composer on the page and listen to the pronunciation of their name and say it three times out loud.
• What era did the composer write in? (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Contemporary)
• What are three things you learned from the composer's biography that you liked?
• Watch the best tenor in the world, Luciano Pavarotti (died in 2007), sing one of Verdi's most famous songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg