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Lang Lang Seeks New Challenges as 30th Birthday Nears
I ran across an excellent article in the Chicago Classical Review about world-renowned pianist Lang Lang. In it, author David Fleshler discusses a variety of things that occupy the artist’s time, such...
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Middle School Music Lessons Enhance Algebra Skills: Study
Can studying music really help students increase their SAT scores? Here’s an interesting study that seems to lend at least some support to that conventional wisdom. It points out that middle school...
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Post-Op Opera: Music Helps Surgery Patients Recover
My second post on the relationship between music and the mind deals with how music can speed up the healing process after surgery. This article by Tom Jacobs describes two separate studies that suggest...
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How to Listen to Music
Is it possible that we really need instruction on this activity? In his 1982 book, Elliott Schwartz gives an emphatic yes, arguing that we’ve learned to tune things out, possibly owing to the onslaught...
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The Digest: Volume 5
The Digest is a weekly feature of the Sketchbook blog that provides an annotated listing of links to relevant articles about events, trends, people, and things that have a direct impact on us as...
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The Digest – March 19, 2013
South by Southwest: Recapping the Music Festival Time A rundown of the SXSW highlights, from Prince to Justin Timberlake, to Waxahatchee, to Death Grips, to Dave Grohl, it’s all here. Next year I’ll...
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