Music is a universal language. Or so musicians like to claim. “With music,” they’ll say, “you can communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries in ways that you can’t with ordinary languages ...

From solo concerts to restaurant gigs to weddings to playing in bands, Larry Zbikowskihad played it all. Yet, 25 years ago, the classically trained guitarist found himself thinking he was just ...

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Which came first: language or music? Traditionally, music has been considered an evolutionary by-product of language. Language, after all, is one of the few skills we have that makes us uniquely human ...

Sicilian guitarist Matteo Mancuso admits he was competitive as a teen. He wanted to one-up his peers with his guitar talents. Then his dad, Vincenzo, gave him advice that really resonated with Mancuso ...

Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple versus ...

Luther grads are global citizens. In few areas is this more evident than in our wide array of alumni teaching music abroad. These exploratory, open-minded, open-hearted teachers take their strong ...

Legend has it that once upon a time, people all spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower as high as possible, to get closer to God. God, annoyed by this act of defiance by ...