Word: mozarts
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Considering that there's essentially no science to support it, the Mozart effect has had a pretty good run. Parents all over the U.S. have been playing the Austrian composer's music to their infants and toddlers on the theory that it stimulates brain development. Even a few state governments have got into the act: Georgia and Tennessee are giving classical-music CDs to new mothers, and Florida has mandated that state-run day-care facilities play such music each...
...comfortable duality with the mind/matter problem. We're basically rationalists, believing that the physical world and the images concocted by our subconscious mind are distinct and separate realities. Over the past hundred or so years, from the table-rapping seances of the 1880s to the playing of Mozart to plants in the 1960s to the spoon-bending ESP tricks of the '70s, we've come to consider that most paranormal interactions between these realms are either hoaxes or explainable by known physical factors. And yet we continue to play mind games with the physical world: whispering "Come on, baby...
This year, Lin was a soloist with Harvard's Mozart Society Orchestra and the professional Boston Symphony Orchestra. During reunion week he is performing a solo during Harvard reunion night with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall...
...Harvard solo career began when he won the Mozart Society Orchestra's (MSO) first-year concerto competition. Soon his name appeared on posters advertising campus performances--his skill well-known, Lin could draw an audience...
...projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York City to celebrate Chinese New Year...