ROCHESTER, N.Y. – World-famous opera singer Renee Fleming from Rochester is working with the National Institutes of Health to see what music does to her brain. Fleming sang in an MRI machine, and the ...

Written by: Anupam Agarwal, M.D. Art and music have long been intertwined with medicine and science, offering not only creative expression but also serving as components of healing. Whether during ...

Music is known to increase well-being and activate brain regions involved in social processing. A new study shows these effects are magnified when people listen to music together.

When John Richards lost his mom, he turned to music. Sitting by her side as she died, he found that songs could say what words couldn’t — and she, a big lover of music herself, understood. That ...

When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record albums. They bonded while poring over all that vinyl, she recalls, ...

When Rigoberto Sanchez-Mejia was just 5 years old, he started taking music lessons at the Harmony Project in Los Angeles. He started out on the drums and the piano, but as soon as he picked up the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — At the heart of music is the shared experience. Emily Pearl and her mother, Kaye, have been part of the Giving Voice Chorus in St. Paul since 2018. The vocalists making the three- ...

Black people have long used music as a form of resistance and a tool for change in America. From spirituals that were sung during enslavement to the freedom songs of the Civil Rights Movement, as well ...

“Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, interdenominational series featuring Black thought leaders across faiths. Music has long been described as a “universal language” for its ability to ...

The saying goes: music is a universal language. One local teacher is proving that to be true by uniting special needs and general education students in one classroom. Courtney Allen shines the ...

THE LAST MUSICIAN OF AUSCHWITZ tells the extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who, alongside fellow prisoners, created music amidst the horrors of the Holocaust. The Last Musician of ...