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DANCE: Kick-boxing lovers are all skill and no heart Ballet Preljocaj Sadler's Wells, London Aletta Collins Lilian Baylis, London
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The course of true love never did run smooth. Being born the wrong
side of the tracks is bad enough for a hobo Romeo. But running the
gauntlet of sniper bullets, searchlights and a slavering guard dog
gives his liaisons with high-born Juliet the kind of desperation that
turns desire to madness.
The French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj - whose parents fled
Albania just days before he was born - clearly has no interest in
repeating Shakespeare's story of innocence abused, still less i...
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Music, The Brain, and Education
Montessori Life
; Music emanates from headphones, accompanies advertisements on television, blares from car speakers, wafts through department stores, elevators, and hospital wards, and now even plays on stereos in classrooms. Certainly, then, we live in a musically active culture, a culture where music of all kinds
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New study confirms that music can have powerful effect on emotions.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WASHINGTON _ Music may be the food of love, but its ``nutritional'' value goes beyond the amorousness of soft jazz on a Saturday night. Scientists and doctors are studying music's powers to cure _ and are exploring the curious links between melodies and maladies. A new study supported by the
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Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music.(Review)
Notes
; Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music. By R. A. Sharpe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [ix, 221 p. ISBN 0-19-823885-1. $35.] In his extended essay Music and Humanism, R. A. Sharpe claims expressive descriptions of music are vital to our understanding and
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Turn up the music: rev up participants' emotions through song.(Fundamentals)
T&D
; Music is used as a learning tool primarily in one facet of life, childhood. When we were young, we learned many life lessons through nursery rhymes and children's tunes, demonstrating the powerful connection between learning and music. But as participants grow older, many trainers cast aside music,
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Music hits right notes with kids
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; Music has been described as the speech of angels, the soul of geometry, the architecture of sound, emotions beyond speech, the universal language. So, it seems safe to say that , the earlier that children are exposed to music the more literate they may become. As such, the Honolulu Symphony has
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A note-worthy era for composers: Sheet music opened a still-wide rift between popular tunes and scholarly works.(Features)(A Thousand Years Of The Arts)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Music and dance are born into humans. One of the earliest and most natural forms of expression in children are the primal sounds, rhythms, and movements that form the building blocks of music. Somewhere along the way most of us lose this natural tendency to express our emotions through song and
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Madredeus' music a haunting blend of ambience, chamber music and fado.(Originated from Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Music in Portuguese has made a big impact on global rhythms. The sounds of Brazil _ choro, samba, bossa nova, forro, lambada _ are known the world over while singer Cesaria Evora has brought attention to the musically rich Cape Verde islands. Yet, oddly, music from Portugal itself is less
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Music and Politics.(NEW TITLES)(Periodical review)(Brief article)
Notes
; Music and Politics. Edited by Patricia Hall. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Semiannual. Vol. 1 (2007). Online format (PDF and HTML). Access: httpwww.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/index.html. Inquiries: zhall@music.ucsb.edu. Free. This new exclusively online journal
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Classroom harmony Students sing praises of music in schools
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... note and in classes like in math, you have to learn how to do this process until you finally get the answer." All this is not news for Andrew Brubaker, the school's band and orchestra teacher. He feels music students are better organized because they need ...
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Music, especially by Bach, helps reduce stress
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; Music, particularly classical compositions by Bach, relieves stress, says a University of Hawaii music professor. "Of all the music we tested in medical school with patients, colleagues and others, Bach's music consistently made the brain work in a balanced way better than any other genre," said
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