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Learning to play a musical instrument can protect your brain from aging, building up a defense against cognitive decline that lasts a lifetime. Researchers from Canada and China discovered older adults who had spent years playing music were better at understanding speech in noisy environments, like a crowded room, compared to those who didn’t play music. Their brains worked more like younger …

The Shaking Quakers might sound like a ’90s rock band from the state of Georgia but it’s actually an accurate description of the late 18th-century religious sect we now know simply as the Shakers. Contrary to the image presented by their immaculate furniture, the Shakers were quite a messy bunch, given to involuntary expressions of rapture, a very physical and …

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.  The New York Times Source link

Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers at the world’s biggest sporting event. Such was the lot of Rachael Gunn, AKA B-girl Raygun, who scored a memorable nul points for Australia at the Paris Olympics in 2024 with her routine topped off with …

Talia Suskauer and Max Chernin play Lucille and Leo Frank in the national tour of Parade, about a Jewish man falsely accused of murder in 1913. Parade ends its tour at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., amid a rise in antisemitic hate. Joan Marcus hide caption toggle caption Joan Marcus The national tour of Parade, a Tony Award-winning musical …

Your brain is never still. Each pulse of sound tweaks its wiring faster than a drummer can tap a snare. A fresh study pairs magnetoencephalography with a clever algorithm called FREQ-NESS to watch that rewiring happen live. Lead researchers Dr. Mattia Rosso and Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti from Aarhus University and the University of Oxford say the method lets them …

Published: Aug 5, 2025, 9:06 p.m. MDT Right outside Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, where he has just spent close to three hours on stage helping to tell Alexander Hamilton’s story through nonstop song and dance, Thayne Jasperson has a smile that won’t quit. The curtains of the sold-out “Hamilton” matinee on this Saturday closed just 30 minutes earlier, but Jasperson …

Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed humorist and pianist whose satirical songs made him one of America’s favorite prophets of doom before he retreated to academia, has died, US media reported on Sunday. He was 97. The singer-songwriter died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his friend David Herder said, according to the New York Times. Lehrer’s sardonic numbers, backed …

American musician and satirist Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97, according to US media reports. Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations, that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Modern comedians such as Weird Al Yankovich said they have been influenced by Lehrer’s work. His death was confirmed to the New …

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97  The New York Times Source link