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...very profound steps forward." By far the most widespread - and most disputed - recent claim is that Mozart can enhance your brain power. That notion was first given scientific support in a 1993 article in Nature, which found that college students who listened to the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos performed better on a spatial reasoning test that involved mentally unfolding a piece of paper. The study's main author, Frances Rauscher, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin who is also a cellist, went on to do a similar test using laboratory...
...leisurely masterpiece that tells the story of the man behind the music with contagious enthusiasm. Undoubtedly, the music is important, and Morris lovingly describes the most moving compositions, right down to the “spasmodic disjunction between right hand and left” in “Piano Sonata, Opus 31, No. 1.” However, the beauty of Beethoven’s music often makes it easy to forget that the great composer was a person with very real human needs, desires, and failings—he scrounged for money, relished fame and attention, and lusted after...
...Bartosik’s was no exception. Despite her clarity and a good sense of timing, Bartosik still battled the piano’s unresponsive upper register, which gained some audience sympathy. Prokofiev, the composer of the evening, made his final appearance with “Sonata No. 3,” played by Xi Li ’09, who also showcased Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella.” The charming performance of this bell-like piece, based on a theme by violin-god Niccolo Paganini, further emphasized the piano?...
...best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
...innovative to woo back reluctant customers. In 1998 the company began offering a 10-year warranty, the best in the industry at the time. And to compete with bigger brands, Hyundai loaded up its models with features that many of its rivals sell only as expensive extras. A 2006 Sonata for the U.S. market comes with six air bags (most competitors offer only four as the standard), a six-speaker CD and MP3 player, and an advanced antilock-braking system--all for less than...