Lesson 3 The Music Goes On
The Star of Stars
Do ____ have a favorite K-pop idol?
Many students will answer, “____.”
These students often ____ great love for their stars.
____ scream madly at concerts.
Others wait hours to take pictures of their ____.
Some ____ even travel to another city to see their favorite stars.
Are idols a recent ____?
No way!
____ idols begin with The Beatles in the 1960’s?
They were ____ by many, but they were not the first.
How about Elvis ____ in the 1950’s?
Not even ____.
To find the ____, let’s take a time machine to a concert hall in Vienna in 1845.
All the seats are ____.
Unlike other concerts, the side of the ____ faces the audience.
This way, the audience can see the handsome 185cm pianist ____.
He doesn’t have any ____ music with him.
He begins to play from memory.
He starts ____ by softly touching the keys.
All the ____ hold their breath because they don’t want to miss a single note.
He builds up speed, and his long ____ press down on many keys at once.
This makes the music very powerful and ____.
The audience pays attention to his every little body ____.
His long beautiful ____ flies everywhere.
It’s ____ watching a piano and ballet performance at once.
____ flies and the concert ends.
People ____ and throw flowers and pieces of clothing onto the stage.
The concert hall ____ wild!
Who was this amazing star?
His name was Franz Liszt and he was born in ____ in Hungary.
He first started playing the piano when he was ____.
Liszt later ____ a great pianist, composer and teacher.
But many people think of him as the first ____.
Why don’t ____ give his music a listen?
If you like today’s idols, you will ____ the original idol.