Today’s Awesome Fact!

by elizabeth  

“Resiliency – to bounce back after a disturbing event – is not something we are born with; it must be learned and sometimes that takes many years. There is no vehicle more joyful and playful for providing such training than early childhood music and movement.”
- Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
Neuroscience Educator

Today’s Awesome Fact

by elizabeth  

Research made between music and intelligence concluded that music training is far greater than computer instruction in improving children’s abstract reasoning skills.(Source: Shaw, Rauscher, Levine, Wright, Dennis and Newcomb, “Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children’s spatial-temporal reasoning,” Neurological Research, vol. 19, February 1997 )

The World’s Oldest Flute

by elizabeth  

One of the neat things about music is its universal nature. Music is played, danced to, sung and appreciated in every human culture we are aware of. Even ancient civilizations were music makers, as was evidenced this past summer when the world’s oldest flute was found in Germany. The flute was made out of vulture bone, and was found to be over 35,000 years old.

Today’s Awesome Fact

by elizabeth  

A 2007 poll found that 88% of all post-graduate students in college and 83% of all people earning $150,000 or more had extensive musical training. — Poll, November 14, 2007 Reuters, Ltd.