Congratulations and welcome back! You have done excellent work in preparing for a smooth trip. It was certainly no easy feat. You now have the information about your chosen composer and have no doubted started to realize from yours and your classmates' presentations that music composition does not happen within a bubble- many things can influence a composers' work. Keep these things in mind as we move on to creating our own compositions and what could influence yours. Who knows, maybe a future time traveler will come back to speak with you about your own compositions!