In many European cultures, as well, music is for playing and sharing. Walking down a street in France, I stop to admire a duet a guitar player and an accordionist. “Do you play?” I am asked in faltering English. “Sure,” I reply, “but…” and the guitar is handed over. “Alors rejoinez nous” please join us and then I am playing three- or four-chord songs I have never heard before but that have patterns that make sense to a musician’s ear, with new friends I have never met before. Late at night, in a street in a small beachside village in Mexico, a group of men, possibly assisted by a touch of “contrabando” the local illegal tequila are singing ranchera songs in two or three harmony parts.
New Jersey Herald
NEWTON As the area marks one year since initial pandemic restrictions were implemented, one of the first Sussex County events to be impacted has announced it will take place virtually this year.
The Sussex County Teen Arts Festival, normally held at Sussex County Community College, will take place March 16 and be virtual due to the continued limit on public gatherings. Area students will showcase their talents in a variety of forms, from visual art and photography to music and creative writing.
Local professionals will judge student performance videos, which will also be available for the general public to view. A gallery displaying all works of creative writing, poetry, fine art, digital art, photography and design will be posted on www.sussexcountyteenarts.com for the event.
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Whether we just listen to music, any kind of music, or perform music or, at a more sophisticated level, delve into the theory of what makes music actually qualify as music and not just sound, our brains are activated in different ways but they are activated. Two University of Central Florida professors, neuroscientist Kiminobu Sugaya and world-renowned violinist Ayako Yonetani, have been exploring how music affects brain function and human behaviour. Their research centres primarily on how music can reduce stress, pain and even symptoms of depression. But more interesting to educators, and not just music educators, Sugaya and Yonetani have determined that music can play a role in improving cognitive and motor skills, spatial-temporal learning and neurogenesis the brain’s ability to produce neurons.