DID YOU KNOW?

British music owes much to the composer Benjamin Britten, whose influence has produced a new school of British opera.
The spread of musical interest in Britain owes much to the British Broadcasting Corporation with its daily music program and its partial financing of the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Robert Burns’s poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and other composers who wrote music to them.
The tunes to Robert Burns’s songs were written by P. Shostakovich, N. Myaskovskiy, A. Alexandrov, Y. Levitin and a number of Russian composers.
On Wednesday 24th October 1962, Love Me Do, entered the British Top Thirty. It was the first single by an unknown group from Liverpool called the Beatles.

The Welsh are so fond of singing that when football fans want to support their team playing against the English they do it by singing the Welsh National Anthem “Land of My Fathers”. The sound of thousands Welsh voices singing this famous song usually helps the Welsh side to win the game.

Writing activities

Ex. 15.?You are doing a program on a local radio station on music around the world and you want to include the USA and the UK. Write a report about one of the brightest epochs in the history of American or British music. (Choose the epoch yourself).

Ex.16. & Read the following text and do the tasks below it.

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VOCABULARY	\|	American classical music

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