August 23, 2019 ~ Daily Listening Assignment

 

Singin’ in the Rain is from a wonderful old movie of the same name and you can find it in Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 3. The movie offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to “talkies”.

https://youtu.be/D1ZYhVpdXbQ

 

Another version of the same song, sung a bit differently

 

From the Alfred Piano book

August 22, 2019 ~ Daily Listening Assignment

 

The Polovtsian Dances form an exotic scene at the end of act 2 of Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor.

The work remained unfinished when the composer died in 1887, although he had worked on it for more than a decade. A performing version was prepared by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov in 1890. One of the more famous dances is found in Piano Pronto Movement 4 and Alfred Premier Piano Course Book 3,.

Can you find it in here?

https://youtu.be/gVURal-QYsA

 

Follow the score!

A different dance

 

The dance that’s usually in method books