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SCIENCE Better Minds Through Music Listening to Mozart makes students smarter -- but only for 10 to 15 minutes. So argues a team of psychologists from the University of California at Irvine that published its preliminary findings in the British scientific journal Nature. Listening to relaxation tapes or sitting in silence had no effect, but the college students scored between eight and nine points higher on an IQ test after hearing a Mozart sonata. In the future the team plans, a bit tendentiously, to study whether repetitive music lacking in complexity (translation: rock) lowers test scores...
...such groups as the Modern Jazz Quartet. Later he would denigrate rock, even though, in his ability to inspire mass mania, he had been a prototypical rock star. He always seemed uneasy at being pigeonholed, and made a point of emphasizing his classical bona fides. He performed and recorded Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings with the Budapest String Quartet in the '30s, and commissioned both Bela Bartok's knotty Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano and Aaron Copland's perky Clarinet Concerto, among other works. Ever aloof, Goodman was hard to get to know. ''I remember...
...Jose, Costa RicaThat's probably the most difficult question because there are so many great works and so many wonderful composers. To choose one piece is really tough. I prefer something with lots of emotion, with lots of colors and lots of melodies. The Russian classics. Some of Mozart and Beethoven's early works, Chopin, Liszt. They're the ones I play most often...
...other argument against Wanted is that the plot not only strains credulity, it breaks through the strainer and plops like pulp in the kitchen sink. Note to critics: Not every work of popular art needs the mathematical precision of a Mozart sonata. It's true that the movie is studded with the sort of schemes a genius madman hatches in his basement. (One plan involves peanut butter, tiny bomb jackets and the use of rats as suicide bombers.) But if you have trouble accepting, even as a fantasy premise, that "A thousand years ago, a clan of weavers formed...
...radio station, WHRB. An Orgy is WHRB’s signature programming, when the station throws conventional shows like “Afternoon Concert” and “Jazz Spectrum” out the door and instead plays all of the works of composers like Mozart, or devotes several hours to “Songs My Boyfriend and I Have Argued About.” The idea is creativity and above all else length, and, being the strangely committed senior that I am, I decided that there could be nothing better than 34 hours of jazz great Eric...