Art and Culture

Reading comprehension was significantly lower when the students read on screens. The researchers also found that the number of “transitions,” where students would go back and re-read the text before submitting their answers, more than…
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The Bridge theatre in London, opened in 2017 by the former National Theatre duo Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, has been acquired by Trafalgar Entertainment in a sale that also includes the Lightroom venue for immersive art shows.…
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Walk into any college library and you will likely see students wearing headphones and listening to music. The idea that music can improve learning has been around for decades. The “Mozart Effect,” is the pop psychology myth, first…
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Organization The Flynn is where the unexpected meets the familiar—where strangers become neighbors through shared wonder. We light up stages and communities alike with performances that inspire and moments that…
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The conductor Ettore Panizza. Credit:.The New York Times The New York Times invited me to attempt a succinct assessment of classical music in the US, from its beginnings to today. My response runs in today’s paper: Last fall,…
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For thirty years, I’ve had the high honor of serving as the music critic of The New Yorker. My archive of writing contains nearly four hundred iterations of the column known as Musical Events, as well as eighty or so longer essays…
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The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics, knowledge and human nature—are…
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Good Morning: New York’s Little Island has cut its performance schedule in half (The New York Times), and Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre has been swallowed by a commercial chain (The Guardian). More studies are…
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When a tool reliably performs a cognitive operation, the internal capacity for that operation tends to weaken with disuse. People who know they can look up something on Google develop weaker memory for the information itself, and…
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Classical music in the United States is borrowed from Europe, and that borrowing was initially ambitious and impressive. An apex was attained around 1900. – The New York Times Source link
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