Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training—not only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity (skills honed by the study of a musical instrument), but also on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion (skills not normally associated with music).
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He is that rara avis-an international virtuoso who arrived at stardom through devotion to new music. His programs intersperse Ravel with Carter, Beethoven with Ligeti, and Schubert with Stockhausen, providing an extraordinary agglomeration of works that call across space.
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