These two women put on a spectacular show using a floor piano inside a toy store. They duet Bach’s Toccata in D and it’s very entertaining. It’s difficult to tell if either of these women were already familiar with the piano before learning this routine, but if so it would have made for much quicker … Read more
Getting a song stuck in your head happens to approximately 92% of us. It’s otherwise known as getting an “earworm”, translated from the German word Ohrwurm literally meaning “sticky music”. For scientific purposes, it has now also been labeled as Involuntary Musical Imagery. It would be so easy to just identify which songs create earworms and … Read more
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/how-to-raise-a-creative-child-step-one-back-off.html?_r=2&referer= *This blog post summarizes the article in the link above We all want our children to be successful, but do we want them to be original and creative? Of course we do! This may lead them to earning a Nobel Prize or curing a fatal disease. But that type of creative thinking does not stem … Read more