Monday Fun Fact Oct 19

 Trolls and Starman!

Music can create images in your head, and the music of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is just one of those!

  Edvard Grieg wrote music to accompany the story of Peer Gynt, a young boy who runs away into the mountains where he is captured by mountain trolls and meets their king.  Peer eventually escapes after being chased by all of the trolls!

The musicians playing this piece use a method called "pizzicato"  on their stringed instruments to make the sounds of Peer tiptoeing out of the hall.  "Pizzicato" means to pluck the strings on your instrument instead of using a bow.

 Listen to the music here and see if you can picture in your mind the images of Peer running away from the trolls:

"In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Here is another version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" being played on an enormous musical organ at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Müpa Budapest (Palace of Arts), Hungary.  

https://youtu.be/dBoGdJ54oWI

SpaceX's Starman just did a flyby of Mars in his Tesla Roadster!

image from Space.com

Starman is a mannequin dressed in an astronaut's suit who is seated in a red Tesla Roadster.  Starman and his Roadster were launched into space on November 5,  2018 aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, and he has travelled 1.3 billion miles in less than 2 years.

You can read more about Starman in his Tesla Roadster by going to DOGO news in the Destiny Library in the Electronic Library of your CPS Portal.

That's all for now.  See you on Friday!