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Music is in Fact Universal

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1835) How many times have you heard some version of that quote? We’ve come to use and understand this as a metaphor for how we believe music to be appreciated across time and culture. Until recently, the universality of music had never been systematically […]

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Be an Enabler—of the Possible

Born to a home-based piano teacher mother, and an amateur violinist father, we three children knew we had to learn to play an instrument as a basic life skill. To their credit, we were never driven by our parents to excel, just left to enjoy music as a language of togetherness and family expression. I […]

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