Student Cuesheet for the 2014-2015 National Symphony Orchestra's Young People's Concert, Exploring Extremes: Music to the Max!

Students review all four of the musical extremes featured on this CD through John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever March.

Students learn that composers use musical dynamics or extremes in volume to create music. By listening to Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 5, students also experience the role extreme dynamics plays in expressing big emotions and ideas.