May 2011
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.:propinquity:.: Musicians' Brains Highly... →
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javiercarrete:
New research shows that musicians’ brains are highly developed in a way that makes the musicians alert, interested in learning, disposed to see the whole picture, calm, and playful. The same traits have previously been found among world-class athletes,…
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“The prophet is engaged in a battle for language, in an effort to create a...”
– Walter Brueggemann from The Prophetic Imagination
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It doesn’t matter what you teach or how many kids are in your class; they will talk when you’re talking. And sometimes in band, when you have a minimum of 30 kids in class, that can be overwhelming. During my part time student teaching at a middle school, there was one alto player in the seventh grade who could not go a minute without disrupting at least the students next to him. It...
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“The same royal consciousness that makes it possible to implement anything and...”
– Walter Brueggemann from The Prophetic Imagination
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Holy crap, brain, why are you weird?
I was getting my clarinet out of my music locker so that I could practice, and I decided I was fed up with how poorly the lock on my locker was working. I wanted to fix it, so I went to the music office and asked for a big screwdriver. My jazz instructor was there and asked why I needed a big screwdriver (instruments require almost exclusively little screwdrivers).
What I said: My locker isn't locking.
What I thought: My locker isn't locking. Which would make it an un-locker. Which would make it the antithesis of itself. Therefore it cannot exist. And I need to fix it before my instruments disappear with it.
Sometimes a musician's brain is a scary place to be.
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“In seeking to provide an alternative to the royal consciousness, we need to ask...”
– Walter Brueggemann from The Prophetic Imagination 