Military bands offer musicians great jobs, similar challenges to orchestras

In musical circles, there’s a lot of disgruntlement that the government doesn’t do more to subsidize the arts. In one area, though, the government does plenty.

The Washington Post

Music Criticism Is Broken

Learning how to talk about music is almost as important—and in some ways as important—as learning how to write music.

New Music Box

The Dangers of Secondhand Music

Like secondhand smoke, the consistent exposure to music everywhere has resulted in a slow poisoning: the invalidation of music as a uniquely singular event.

New Music Box

An Empathic Musical Orchestra — A String of New Relationships

Research shows that music affects our creativity and productivity. A series of experiments has investigated the relationship between the playing of background music during the performance of repetitive work and the efficiency in such a task.

Huffington Post