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Rock your baby in sync with music and you may wonder how the experience affects her and her developing brain. A new study by scientists at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) shows that a series of play sessions with music improved 9-month-old babies’ brain processing of both music and new speech sounds. Read more here…

Dallas — When asked, most performing arts aficionados in the Metroplex will tell you that there are two world class symphony orchestras in the area: one in Dallas and another in Fort Worth. But that would not be completely true. There is another one: the orchestra of the Dallas Opera. Joined by the men of TDO’s equally fine opera chorus, the Dallas Opera Orchestra takes the stage for a solo turn at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Winspear Opera House, in ATTPAC’s Classical Criterion series. Emmanuel Villaume, TDO’s dynamic Music Director, will conduct. Read more here…

Aidan McCurley of Palatine ran through his recital piece during a recent piano lesson with ease. The 10-year-old boy played the simple melody softly, but he ended it with a resounding chord. Read more here…

Atascocita High School (AHS) graduate Samantha Graham has chosen to pursue a career in a field more and more people are recognizing for its many benefits to patients with a wide range of disorders, diseases and ailments. Read more here…

CONGNITIVE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT — A new study conducted by the UD Cognitive Science department has concluded the lo-fi indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel is a proven treatment for teenage depression. The band was tested alongside other musical treatments, such as Elliot Smith and Joy Division. Read more here…

DENVER, Colo. – Imagine taking a class day after day and not remembering a thing. That’s exactly what it’s like for people struggling with Alzheimer’s. But music therapy can give those with the disease a break from the confusion and fear. Read more here…

Thanks to the growing number of hospital music therapy programs, the prognosis for some chronically ill patients is going from bad to verse, and that’s a good thing. Researchers with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City have found that music therapy — such as singing and playing wind instruments — helps to lower depression symptoms and improves breathing better than traditional treatment alone does for patients with chronic breathing conditions. Read more here…

You may have heard of horror stories from renters who live in a bad apartment; but three Capilano University students have turned their horror story into a horror album. Josh Denny-Keys, Emily Brown and Bryan Butler are students of music therapy who shared a dodgy house in North Vancouver to save money, and immortalized their dumpy conditions in an album called Shack of the Year by their new band, Shack 25. Read more here…

Thanks to the growing number of hospital music therapy programs, the prognosis for some chronically ill patients is going from bad to verse, and that’s a good thing. Researchers with Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City have found that music therapy — such as singing and playing wind instruments — helps to lower depression symptoms and improves breathing better than traditional treatment alone does for patients with chronic breathing conditions. Read more here…

Atascocita High School (AHS) graduate Samantha Graham has chosen to pursue a career in a field more and more people are recognizing for its many benefits to patients with a wide range of disorders, diseases and ailments. Read more here…