Some music therapists use Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ and Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ to help with social engagement and pronunciation....

This March 1st we celebrate French composer Fredrick Chopin’s 214th birthday. His music is a gift to us now and for all generations to...

Happy new year!🎉   We hope you enjoyed the holidays and are looking forward to a new year. As you know, this is the time of year when it...

By now it should be no surprise to our readers how much we love this time of year with the music, live performances and general goodwill....

There are many ways that music can aid in the development of our youngsters, and one of the major benefits is enhanced language skills,...

Arts organizations and music educators — including us —  have lauded the benefits of music education for several years. It appears that...

They’ve seen the worst of atrocities fighting in a war and returned home after enduring life-changing injuries. Now, they’re moving on...

Daria van den Bercken loves classical music and will do just about anything to make sure you like it too. She has played the music of George Frideric Handel in the air, hoisted 25 feet above fans in Brazil. She’s played in parks and banks in Amsterdam. She has even invited strangers into her apartment to listen to Handel in an intimate setting. Why? Well, Bercken is inspired by Handel’s music. During a TED Talks presentation the musician said she felt “pure, unprejudiced am

Happy Autumn! For us, autumn makes us think of the smells of baked pumpkin and warm apple cider and the sights of dark nights and wind blowing through trees. But what does fall sound like? There are no shortage of online playlists focused on this season. You can listen to some here: Hook and Harmony Track Fall Playlist We think, however, that autumn belongs to Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian baroque composer who penned the wildly successful “The Four Seasons.” The violin concert

It doesn’t seem possible to refer to musical prodigies as commonplace or 14-year-old virtuosos as over the hill but Newsweek provides...

Sometimes the best music can happen inside a concert hall. And other times the best musical moments are unplanned. That’s what happened recently in Texas when an aspiring musician strumming his guitar outside a grocery store was joined by two strangers. A third stranger recorded their impromptu session and posted it on YouTube and Facebook. The rest is Internet history. The video has since gone viral, boosting the popularity of the three men so much that they  were flown to

We already know about the exciting neural activity that happens when we play music and how it creates lasting effects that benefit...

In any type of education — music, arts, athletics — focus and concentration are essential elements for success. Just as a baseball batter needs to ignore distractions and focus on the ball, a musician must be able to focus on the notes. We recently learned of a young musician who took her concentration skills to a new level and we were impressed! Flutist Yukie Ota was performing at an international competition in Denmark when a butterfly landed on her forehead. To make matte

Dig beneath the dominating sounds of string instruments. Ignore the Autotune treatments of today’s pop tunes. What if the fundamental...

Attending a baseball game doesn’t make you fit and neither does watching a legal thriller make you a lawyer. The same thinking applies to...

We know that music provides so many benefits to the brain but we were touched by one story about how music can make us better people.   A...

By now, you know we love this time of year with all of the holiday music and special live performances but this is also a great time to...

Japanese school teacher Junji Koyama has become world-famous for making musical instruments out of fruits and vegetables and posting YouTube performances of his work.  Junji has performed on every kind of fruit or vegetable you can think of – apples, pineapples, strawberries, limes, cactus, carrots, radishes, broccoli, cucumbers – a full orchestra of edible instruments. Originally, Junji’s work was exclusive to vegetables, until the world’s largest self-serve frozen yogurt br

Every spring bees make their way around to all the blossoming flowers to pollinate nature for us – but did you know the key to doing it...

If you have given your child the gift of music lessons this holiday season, congratulations! You and your child are in for a rewarding...