Mozart Effect

Test prep season leads to novel motivation
Times-Leader - PHILADELPHIA - It's testing season, and, after hitting the books for months, students throughout the region are getting some unconventional help to boost their scores on high-stakes state exams. Peppermint candies. Mozart. Military garb. And a change

11 DAYS OF PERFORMING ARTS
Kansas City Star - HAROLYN BLACKWELL AND CHRISTOPHEREN NOMUA: Soprano and baritone. 8 p.m. April 15. Johnson County Community College, Yardley Hall, Carlsen Center. $15-$25. www.jccc.edu/CarlsenCenter (913-469-4445) JANE CARL: Clarinet, with Patricia Higdon, piano

Calendar for April 6-15
Kansas City Star - KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE, EPPERSON AUDITORIUM, VANDERSLICE HALL: Art Lecture: Deformity and the Ideal. By Jessie Fisher, KCAI painting instructor. 7 p.m. April 13. KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: Kansas City Artist s Spotlight

Music for the Mind
Daily Free Press - More than 200 years after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart still has the ability to influence thousands of people around the world. The Mozart Effect, a technique originally described in the research of Alfred Tomatis, claims that the music of the

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Kansas City Star - ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC AND GIULIANO CARMIGNOLA: Friends of Chamber Music. Violin. 8 p.m. March 31. Folly Theater. $25-$35. www.chambermusic.org (816-561-9999) BOWFIRE: 11 violinists and fiddlers. 8 p.m. March 31-April 1. Johnson County Community

William Safire And Art That's Good for You
Washington Post - It used to be fairly easy to draw the political battle lines over art in America. On one side, let's call it the left, was a view of human creativity that emphasized confrontation and paradigm busting, that reveled in political provocation and