How playing an instrument benefits your brain

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Celebrating Music in America

"What is the fundamental expression of creativity? What does creativity do? To me, creativity is the power to create something from nothing. So I think of what necessity causes people to stir up in themselves the creativity that is developed by not having everything, and finding a way to make everything out of nothing." -Esperanza Spalding, Grammy winning American bassist, vocalist, songwriter, and composer

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The importance of Chorus

"And when you get together with a group other singers, it becomes more than the sum of the parts. All of those people are pouring out their hearts and souls in perfect harmony, which is kind of an emblem for what we need in this world when so much of the world is at odds with itself, that just to express in symbolic terms what it's like when human beings are in harmony. That's a lesson for our times and for all time..." -John Rutter, English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer.