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Pope Leo XIV on the power of music. ❤️

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV attended a special Concert with the Poor at the Vatican, marking the first time a pope has ever taken part in the annual event.

Read about the concert, and Pope Leo's musical moment with Michael Bublé, here: https://clssicfm.co/48GxzPT

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Get ready for it.. 🤣

Nuova muta e nuovo tipo di corde. Vediamo come reagisce lo strumento... e anche io!

Interessanti considerazioni sui benefici di studiare uno strumento musicale in età adulta.

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce wrote in 2024. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce wrote. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continued. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce wrote, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce wrote.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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A rare photo of Stravinsky playing the opening of Rite of Spring 🥸

Splendido concerto ieri sera all'auditorium Pollini con l'Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, D. Renzetti e soprattutto Giuseppe Gibboni. Un violinista di straordinaria precisione tecnica, veramente impressionante, accompagnata da una maturità espressiva che non fa sospettare la sua giovane età. Ci ha regalato un Tchaikovsky superlativo, che ricorderò a lungo. È stato un privilegio poterlo ascoltare.
Molto buona anche l'orchestra, uniformemente nelle sezioni. Finalmente si è sentito un organico adeguato al repertorio!