March 23 – March 29: Listening Assignment (remember that listening assignments apply to the weeks during which the listening is assigned.)

Peter Tchaikovsky (#1)

• Read the composer's short bio here (no music links need to be watched).
• Read Tchaikovky's famous quote: 
• “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
• “Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”
• “To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
• Q. 1. Write out the composer's entire name in your lesson plan.
• Q. 2. What era did this composer live/write in?
• Listen to and watch at LEAST the first 10 minutes of the piece (and the last 3 minutes): Van Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no. 1 (never has a better recording been made of this piece): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsb1GIhhJfg
• Q. 3. Name 3–5 famous pieces this composer wrote for the piano (or what is now played on the piano, if originally written for a different instrument). Use different pieces if the composer has previously been asked for.
• Q. 4. Name 3–5 stylistic characteristics of why this piece is a part of the musical era you wrote above. (Refer to the new page on the blog on the right called "Musical Period Characteristics" for help.)