After three strokes, Jenni Moore is still keeping a beat and a smile.
In an AdventHealth Central Florida neurology wing, Moore was jamming away on a xylophone with the hospital’s developing program “Strokestra,” an ensemble of musicians and stroke patients making music to encourage positive healing.
With a new BBC Proms season underway, new research reveals that a record number of British adults want to experience an orchestral concert – and the classical genre is also rising in popularity relative to other styles of popular music.
Forty years ago, John Williams was already hugely well-known to audiences in America and around the world. By 1984, he had already composed dozens of film scores, including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Star Wars, E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
With the nation going to the polls this week, 76% of adults would like to see the next Government do more to support arts and culture in Britain – with a specific focus on young people, a democratisation of access and more music lessons in primary schools seen to be key priorities, according to new research from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO).
