As the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra faces a lockout between its management and musicians, we find a troubled industry in the news once again.
When we look at this second set of challenges, and observe humans that are solving these types of problems (writers, musicians, marketeers), we find them leveraging their imagination.
"We found young musicians at the New York conservatories looking for a place to play," recalled Lillian Barbash, then and still the council's chairwoman.
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What we found were activists, musicians and artists of all kinds who are similarly seeking out something greater than themselves.
We find that musicians rate sadness and fear as significantly more arousing than non-musicians, and that musical training is associated with specific neural activations: In response to sadness expressed in music, musicians show activation increases in the right prefrontal cortex, specifically in the superior and middle frontal gyri.
The contributions of those jazz musicians to popular music are substantial and stunning--in fact, in some of the most artistically and commercially successful popular music of all time, we find jazz musicians in the foreground and in the background, in various roles, providing their expertise as performers, composers, arrangers, and producers.
One hundred percent of the net proceeds benefit the charity's programs, from offering housing for returning musicians to helping musicians find gigs as they make it back to the cradle of jazz and rock.
You find that with many musicians – we don't listen to our own music for relaxation".
Many of the musicians also found parts of the music a bit jarring.
