Study: Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising
Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved in monitoring one’s performance is shut down, while a small region involved in organizing self-initiated thoughts and behaviors is highly activated.
The researchers propose that this and several related patterns are likely to be key indicators of a brain that is engaged in highly creative thought.
STRADIVARI violin , THE PENNY, 1,500,000 U.S. dollars
Stradivari > 18th Century > violin > Musical Instruments > Violin Family > Italian
Sale Title FINE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Location New York, Rockefeller Plaza Sale Date Apr 04, 2008
Lot Number 0195 Sale Number 1982
Creator A VIOLIN, KNOWN AS THE PENNY, CREMONA, CIRCA 1700
Lot Title ANTONIO STRADIVARI
Estimate 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 U.S. dollars
Lot Description ANTONIO STRADIVARI
A VIOLIN, KNOWN AS THE PENNY, CREMONA, CIRCA 1700
Labeled ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS CREMONENSIS FACIBAT ANNO 17(00), length of back 13 7/8 in (353 mm) with case (3)
Provenance Capel-Cure
W.E. Hill & Sons
Christian Howes' Creative Strings Workshop
Christian Howes' Creative Strings Workshop is an intimate and realistic learning experience for any aspiring string player. This year's camp will be held June 30 - July 6 at Otterbein College in Columbus, Ohio.
Through clinics, community outreach performances, one-on-one coaching, gigs at popular clubs, and public and private jam sessions, participants immerse themselves in an intense week of experimentation and experience with nearly every genre of improvisation-based music.
2 new Beethoven recordings
CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS: Accomplished violinists try their hands at Beethoven pairing
What are the odds that two releases with this unprecedented (but logical) coupling, both so interesting, should come along the same month?
Isabelle Faust, fast becoming one of the world's most interesting violinists, takes a stylish approach to these two masterpieces, informed by period insights but basically modern. Vadim Repin, now attaining the patina of middle-aged master in this label debut, exhibits an unreconstructed and unashamed old-fashioned heroism.
KODALY: Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello Op. 8
KODALY: Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello Op. 8; Duo for Violin and Cello Op. 7; BOTTERMUND-STARKER: Variations on a Theme by Paganini - Janos Starker, cello/ Josef Gingold, violin -
Violin method utilizes child's most effective teacher -- the parent
Kalen Riley, 5, and his mom, Shana, made a sweet show of gratitude at the boy's school on Wednesday.
"Thank you for bringing me to school," Kalen said, looking up at his mother from behind round, wire-rimmed eyeglasses. Then he bowed.
"Thank you for being my child," Shana said, bowing back.
Fingers that keep valuable violins fit
300-year-old instruments sound sweet thanks to conservationist
By Ian Fisher,
New York Times News Service
Cremona, Italy | A violin, it turns out, needs to be played, just as a car needs to be driven and a human body shooed off the couch. In this city that produced the best violins ever made, that job belongs to Andrea Mosconi. He is 75, and for the past 30 years, six days a week, he has finger-fed 300-year-old violins, worth millions of dollars, a diet of Bach and Tchaikovsky.
Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor, Dies
Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor who was renowned not only as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century but also as an outspoken champion of artistic freedom in Russia during the final decades of the Cold War, died yesterday in Moscow. He was 80 and lived in Paris, with homes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London and Lausanne, Switzerland.Mstislav Rostropovich gave an impromptu concert at Checkpoint Charlie after the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.
