What Can Classical Music do for You?
According to E. Glenn Schellenberg, organized music lessons have a real and lasting positive effect on children’s IQ and performance, and the longer the lessons continue, the greater the benefit. Each month of lessons resulted in an average IQ increase Read More …
Though not much in vogue in this day and age, it has survived and had weathered the test of time to the 21st century. Without which, there would be no violins, no piano, no sopranos, no choirs, no 3 Tenors, Read More …
This post is a day early because I’m learning raindrop technique. Here’s a study by L Harmat, J Takács, and R Bódizs: AIM: This paper is a report of a study to investigate the effects of music on sleep quality Read More …
I’ve been doing lots of thinking about what an ugly business classical music can be–backstabbing, competitive, and just plain nasty, and I realised that all of this can be traced to scarcity thinking. Formerly I knew there was a huge Read More …
This post is a day early because I’ll be busy tomorrow with the St. Nicholas parish council. Originally I had planned to post on something else today, but I want to bring your attention to El Sistema. El Sistema (really Read More …
Continued from The Cultures of Failure and Death, Part 1 and The Cultures of Failure and Death, Part 2 Even after the experiment was over, the mice showed what appeared to be permanent changes. Mr. Merrill took the mice to Read More …
Continued from The Cultures of Failure and Death, Part 1 : The more scientifically astute of you will have noticed that 18 mice is a really small sample size, and that playing music 24 hours a day at 90 decibels Read More …
Admit it, you think I’m exaggerating this post title for effect. And yet . . . David Merrill, a high-school student from Nansemond River High School in Suffolk, VA, won regional and state science fairs ten years ago for an Read More …
I was talking with a few friends the other day about business matters, and what they told me is that I have a lot of accumulated knowledge after twenty years in the music business, that people will pay money for. Read More …
