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Monday, August 25, 2014

Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it! -- ScienceDaily

Learning to play the piano? Sleep on it! -- ScienceDaily:
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Is your musician getting enough sleep between practice sessions?

According to researchers at the University of Montreal, the regions of the brain below the cortex play an important role as we train our bodies' movements and, critically, they interact more effectively after a night of sleep. While researchers knew that sleep helped us the learn sequences of movements (motor learning), it was not known why.

Flashmob by EUYO at the Rijksmuseum



If you want to get your audience out of their seats you've got to get the orchestra out of theirs too.












Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Bach for Buddha

This is from William Harvey's thoughts about visiting Bagan, Myanmar with his violin.  William is a Juilliard graduate and Founder of Cultures in Harmony.

Yesterday, the festival musicians and some of the supporters climbed all over large pagodas with dozens of other tourists in Bagan, Myanmar. While the experience was incredible, the large crowds of camera-toting fellow foreigners made it difficult to apprehend the sense of spirituality and mystery which one would expect from this land dotted with hundreds of pagodas, some of which date back a thousand years. So today, Kirsty Griffiths (the festival's mezzo soprano and choral conductor) agreed to join me in a more interesting quest. This time, we would go alone to the smaller pagodas, and I would carry my violin.

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http://harmonybeat.blogspot.com/2014/06/bach-for-buddha.html


Monday, November 11, 2013

Bach Masterclass -- Bringing the Adagio to Life with Roy Sonne




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