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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Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.
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The album “Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975” is the bestselling album of all time in the United States. Now Don Felder of the Eagles has finally broken the band’s lengthy public silence in a new memoir, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).
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Our American readers might remember Paul Davis, who had hits in the ’70s and early ’80s with songs like Ride ’Em Cowboy, I Go Crazy and Sweet Life. Paul Davis died in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi yesterday after a heart attack on his 60th birthday.
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Tonight is the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, and Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys finally gets his medal.
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Quiet Riot vocalist Kevin DuBrow was found dead at his home in Las Vegas on Sunday. Friends reportedly went to his home and found the singer. The musician was 52.
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Casey Calvert, guitarist for post punk/ rock band Hawthorne Heights, was found dead early Saturday morning. Calvert was 26-years-old.
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CLASSICAL musicians have a harmonious future thanks to government's decision to throw its weight (and money) behind one of the country's most respected orchestras. After years of uncertainty, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) has just become the third state-funded orchestra. Managing Director Shadrack Bokaba is confident that the JPO is here to stay.
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As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today, Evelyn Glennie is constantly redefining the boundaries and expectations of percussion. Glennie combines superb technique with immense vitality to produce visually spectacular performances, giving more than 100 concerts a year worldwide with the greatest conductors and orchestras.
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One of the most gifted musicians of our time, trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval brings his exhilarating mixture of jazz, classical and Latin music to Pensacola for one sizzling performance at the Saenger Theatre with the Pensacola Symphony Silver Bullet POPS! Saturday, February 10 at 8 p.m. With this concert, the Pensacola Symphony launches its Latin American Festival which runs through April and includes five concerts featuring Latin jazz and masterworks from Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela.
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