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We are experiencing a reawakening of classical music · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  So, what is your favorite music genre to listen to?
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  What's your yeah?
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  Yeah, what's your favorite?
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  Okay.
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  All right.
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  There is there's a resurgence happening, by the way, in classical music.
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  Did you know this?
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  Were you aware of this?
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  It's happening.
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  And it's happening across the board.
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  And I'm I'm I'm curious.
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  I'm I'm just wondering if it if it is coinciding with a resurgence in classical education.
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  I'm I'm wondering if it's a lagging indicator.
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  Because classical and classical education has been in a super resurgence, probably since COVID, but even prior to COVID, classical education has been, I would say the decade before.
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  It really began in the early 90s, with uh some schools sprouting up.
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  I don't know that that we would call that uh or resurgence.
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  It was it was just a handful of schools, but since then classical education has exploded and and really since COVID, because parents want more, people want more.
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  They're tired of the status quo.
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  They're tired of being told their kids are receiving an education when in fact they're not, or or I guess I should take that back.
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  They are, they're being educated.
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  It's just not an education that's forming or shaping their souls, it's an education that's forming and shaping their hearts and minds down a path of indoctrination, an ideology that traditional American parents aren't interested in.
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  So while this is happening over here on the side, we have this resurgence classical music.
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  The other day, Cindy and I are in the grocery store, and I'm listening to the music that they're they're piping through the system, and it's it's uh I'm annoyed by it.
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  I find myself becoming more and more annoyed as we're going from aisle to aisle as I'm listening to this music, and it's just I mean, it's awful.
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  It's the same repetitive, you know, pop beat, the same melody, just different words, and it's just not good, it's not very good.
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  And so I had this thought, and then I I said it out loud to Cindy.
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  I wonder if the manager here at the store.
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  I wonder if he would change the or I said it this way.
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  I wonder if if by changing the music to classical.
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  I wonder if he would he or she, I don't know.
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  I think the manager's a man.
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  I wonder if he would experience something different in the store.
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  I don't know, happier customers, maybe maybe they might be willing to spend more money, or maybe they're not willing, but maybe they just might.
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  Maybe they're I would like to see it tracked.
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  I wonder if if I don't know the manager, I don't know.
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  But I don't know.
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  Should I approach him?
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  Should I ask him and see if he'd be willing to do this study?
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  I mean, it's one store.
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  But if we tracked it over six months, you know, maybe we could maybe we could determine some things.
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  I just I don't know.
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  I'd like to determine something.
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  I'm interested.
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  I'm interested because I run a classical school and uh I like classical music.
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  Okay, I've got to admit classical music.
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  Uh it was it was something that I had to um it's kind of like drinking coffee, you know.
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  When you start out drinking coffee as a teenager, you're like, holy smokes, what is this horrible stuff?
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  You know, it's black and bitter, and then you try to you try to make it taste good with heaping mounds of sugar or or cream or or whatever you're gonna put in it.
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  Caramel, or you know, try to latte it up, but eventually it's an acquired taste.
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  I mean, right now I'm drinking my coffee black and I love it.
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  It just grew on me, I guess.
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  And for me, classical music was the same.
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  It was for me, it had to be this acquired taste.
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  At first, I didn't I didn't like it.
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  You know when I really liked it, by the way.
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  I guess and I didn't even realize that it was classical, because I was little, but I'd be watching Bugs Bunny, and all the activity that Bugs Bunny is going through is um it's put to classical music, and of course, then I enjoy it, but later on when you don't have bugs and you're not looking at bugs, at least for me.
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  Uh I'm like, classical what is this?
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  This stuff's gonna put you out of sleep as a as a child, as a young man.
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  But in fact, it does the opposite, it doesn't put you to sleep.
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  In fact, it keeps you focused.
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  It causes you to be um what's the word I'm looking for?
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  Um trained on on a particular thing.
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  The classical, especially if you're playing it in the background.
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  This this study I'm looking at here, the resurgence of classical music is very intriguing.
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  And I and I want to go over it with you today, because I think it might aid you, help you if you make attempts to apply it to your to your daily life.
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  Now here we are, we're at the new year, and many of us are setting goals and making resolutions.
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  By the way, today's the 12th, and a majority of Americans have given up on their resolutions already.
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  Did you know this?
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  So if you're one of them, if you're one of the Americans who have thrown in the towel, well, pick the towel back up, and let's perhaps make a new resolution or set a new goal.
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  And in this new goal, let's include classical music as part of our listening enjoyment.
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  All right, I want to I want to dive into this this article here.
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  This this piece is by the Epoch Times, and uh Rebecca Day, she's the author.
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  And in this piece, she interviews a man by the name of Frank Dominguez.
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  Dominguez is a uh a radio station manager.
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  He manages W DAV in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  This particular radio station happens to be a small college radio station dedicated to classical music.
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  W D A V.
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  I don't know, maybe you're maybe you listened to it earlier if you live in Charlotte.
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  Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  And in this piece, and as she's you know, interviewing him, he he tells her this story.
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  January 2022.
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  So this is this would have been four years ago, or in January 2026, four years ago.
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  He uh is on his lunch break, and while on break, he checks the Nielsen ratings for his classical radio station, his small college classical radio station, and is any good station manager would do.
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  They check the Nielsen ratings.
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  They want to find out where they land.
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  And he couldn't believe his eyes.
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  And uh, as he's going through the Nielsen report, he's thinking, oh, this has got to be a mistake.
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  There's got to be a glitch here somewhere.
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  This can't be right.
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  What I what I've discovered here in the Nielsen ratings, this this can't be right.
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  The small college radio station, dedicated to classical music, was listed as the number one radio station in Charlotte.
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  Now, Charlotte is it's not a small market, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  Why isn't Charlotte the Capitol?
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  I don't know.
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  Somebody correct me on that.
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  I feel like it is, but I could be wrong.
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  I'm I'm not uh I'm not gifted in all the state capital swipe.
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  I could be wrong, but regardless, it's it's not a small market.
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  And in order to be number one, that means you had to beat out everybody else, including probably sevular.
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  Um did I just say sevular?
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  Including several pop pop stations who uh who are out there playing today.
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  Biggest hits.
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  And why are they today's biggest hits?
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  Because people want to listen to them.
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  That's why they're called pop stations.
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  Because they're they're popular.
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  The small little college classical radio station, WDAV hits number one, January 2022.
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  And so in this in this piece in this article, Epoch Times interviews a music historian named Ted Goya.
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  And Ted has a theory.
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  He says that a good portion of WDAB's listeners are from Gen X and their females, ranging from ages 35 to 44.
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  A separate and sizable 38% of the station's audience are classified as young children.
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  The Sharp Ryzen Listeners began over the 2021 holiday season because this rating comes out in January 2022.
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  So over Christmas time, probably from Thanksgiving to Christmas, there's the sharp rise in this station's audience.
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  So after it comes through through Christmas, Thanksgiving and Christmas, the holiday season, the the listenership never dropped.
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  Although the festivities concluded, the listening did not.
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  And so Goya says it's not hard to put the pieces together.
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  Over the holiday school break, mothers were playing classical music for their children.
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  And they developed a taste for it themselves.
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  Even when the children went back to school, the radio dial didn't move.
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  Okay.
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  That's interesting.
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  The average WDAV rotation includes traditional classical compositions such as Beethoven's Fifth, Hayden's Piano Sonata number 47.
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  With pieces like these, Dominguez and his humble classical music station made United States radio history.
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  The Charlotte Observer wrote that WDAV made radio history by topping the Charlotte market and becoming the first ever classical music radio station to be number one in any market in the country.
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  January 2022.
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  But studies over the past two years, since this point, since January 2022.
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  Studies show that the surprise that Dominguez had about his success with his classical music radio station indicate a larger cultural shift.
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  And this is this is where it gets interesting.
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  I'm not sure what happened between 2011, 2021, and 2022.
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  But something took place.
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  Since 2022, interest in classical music among according to this piece, among other consumers has steadily increased.
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  In the years prior, interest state at about 1%.
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  And this is of the entire country, of the entire population.
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  This is according to Nielsen.
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  However, 2022, the traditional genre, classical music experienced a significant jump.
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  Okay, listen to these numbers.
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  A survey conducted by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry reports that classical music rose to the sixth spot on a most popular music genre chart.
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  Number six.
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  This is nationally.
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  This is throughout the entire country.
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  The study tracked music consumers' listening habits on a global scale.
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  So now we're not even talking about America.
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  We're talking about the globe.
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  Like surveys were conducted in 2022 by market research and data analytics companies.
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  And one of them, Ugov discovered that 25% of Americans and 23% of residents of UK listed classical music as one of their favorite genres.
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  It's one of their go-to's.
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  What's your go-to music?
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  If I were to open up your Spotify right now, what would what what would I find on the playlist?
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  25% of Americans said classical music.
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  That's that's it's one of our favorites.
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  And a close 23% and UK said the same.
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  This is in 2022.
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  In 2023, interested by this research and that this peak, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, also known as RPO, not a run pass option.
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  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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  I've been watching football all weekend.
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  The RPOs.
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  That's what the announcers talk about.
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  Run pass option.
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  Actually, it stands for Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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  I wonder if they knew that.
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  So in 2023, the Royal Philharmonic, uh, they do a study of their own.
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  And their study shows that interest continues to rise of 2,000 participants surveyed.
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  84% said they would like to experience an orchestral concert in person.
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  This number is a five-year high for the Royal Philharmonic.
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  79% showed interest in attending a concert in 2018.
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  So 2023.
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  So over five years, the interest has jumped 5%.
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  You know, 5% is a decent number.
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  That's a decent percentage.
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  2,000 participants here.
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  And so we um here's what we discovered at Waterbrook.
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  We all right, I'm looking at the clock.
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  Okay, I tell you what, let's pause here.
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  I'm going to talk about our discovery.
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  What we discovered in terms of of classical music, in terms of orchestras, in terms of what all this looks like in the academic world, at least then out in a K-12 experience, classical school.
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  So classical music is on the rise.
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  The genre is booming, as it were.
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  And coming out of that or going into that first break, I made note of this 2023 study by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which showed 84% of those surveyed said, Yeah, I want to go to a live performance.
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  I want to go to a to a live orchestra in person.
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  I want to see this thing unfold.
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  So here's what we saw at Waterbrook.
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  We I would say the past eight, nine, ten years, we've had two music departments.
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  We've had a concert.
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  And then we've had concert strings.
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  Concert band had their instructor, concert strings had their instructor.
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  And during Christmas and at year end, we would have these these concerts where the band would play and then the strings would play.
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  And at the end, they would kind of do one piece together.
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  Well, last summer, the the uh the teacher who taught concert band took another position at another school.
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  And in losing her, we decided just internally talking to the the strings instructor that what instead of having two programs, instead of having strings and band, let's have an orchestra.
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  Why not bring these two together under one umbrella and let's have an orchestra?
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  What got us thinking in this vein is last year.
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  There um there were some classical schools in the state of Michigan, which kind of came together and and had a had a music performance, and we had an orchestra.
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  And our strings teacher led that orchestra, and it sounded fantastic.
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  It was great.
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  These kids were into it, they were they were dedicated to it, they had practiced, they sounded beautiful.
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  And I said, There's no reason why we can't have an orchestra at Waterbrook.
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  It doesn't make sense really to look to find a replacement for our band when we when we have the replacement in-house.
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  And uh let's do this thing under the umbrella of an orchestra.
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  So we did.
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  And the Christmas concert, uh, it was beautiful.
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  It was that's that's the word that I have to describe it.
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  It was beautiful.
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  And parent after parent after parent came up to me and just said, this was we loved this.
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  We we love having an orchestra.
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  And I love it.
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  I love having the orchestra, and I'm sure we'll we'll change some things and tweak some things as we go for improvement.
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  You you you always want growth and you always want improvement, but the response was overwhelming.
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  And it strikes me here, because in this this Royal Philharmonic study, 84% of the people wanted to experience an orchestra live.
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  And here we are.
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  It's something that our families experienced over Christmas.
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  They're going to experience it again in the springtime.
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  We're also going to uh have the uh classical consortium again with other schools in the state of Michigan, and the orchestra will will play there again.
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  And it's it's gonna be beautiful, and people are enjoying it.
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  People are loving it.
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  This is this is something that uh that is growing.
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  And in this piece, listeners new to the classical music genre in this royal philharmonic study, outnumbered those familiar with it, 54% to 37%.
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  Um listeners outnumbered the old listeners, essentially.
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  54% to 37%, which suggests that the audience for the genre is broad broadening rather than slowing down or plateauing.
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  And I don't know, I just uh I guess if you're a classical school, this is which I am.
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  This is something that we enjoy.
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  So it's something that I'm I'm intrigued about.
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  But here's the interesting part.
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  It's it's not just parents, it's not just grandparents, it's not just older people.
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  Young people are becoming more and more interested in in classical music.
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  So this piece says that um this RPO study from December 2022 found that 65% of the 2,000 people surveyed, their 2,000 participants uh who listened to classical music on a regular basis were younger than 35.
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  I mean, that is so if you if you think of the I don't know, the the pop music genre.
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  It's usually um, I guess you probably have your segments of preteen to maybe 18, 19, and then you've got that age bracket up to 35.
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  65 percent of individuals in this survey said that they they listened to classical music all the time, and they were younger than 35.
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  I'm not sure what their age was.
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  I mean, you you get these ranges in these studies, so you don't know specific ages, but this is interesting.
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  And it's also interesting in the way the younger generations are consuming this music because it could account for the uh the increase in popularity.
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  The majority of young people who uh in this sample listen to classical music via streaming services.
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  Because of this music becomes a part of their everyday activities.
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  A quarter of younger survey participants said they stream classical music while they're cooking dinner.
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  Uh, this was among listeners' favorite activities to pair with classical music.
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  Uh some others said I listen to it while I'm exercising, some said while I'm falling asleep or while I'm reading or while I'm hosting a dinner party.
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  I want classical music playing in the background.
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  Uh, when we have uh our events at Waterbrook, we uh personally I'd like to have classical music pumped in through the through the speakers when when we get the students together for for events.
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  But in younger people who are, you know, they're at home cooking dinner or they're you know, they they
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  They like this feel.
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  They like this aura.
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  They they like the mood that cooking dinner paired with classical music kind of brings.
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  Um, I don't know, it kind of introduces a uh a sophistication, as it were.
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  I I think that's the word, a sophistication, a maturity, perhaps.
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  And this is what people are looking for.
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  If that's going to help them feel sophisticated or feel mature, then by all means, while you're making dinner, play classical music in the background.
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  Or if it's going to help you fall asleep, go for it.
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  I like to have it playing while I'm reading because it's just it becomes background music.
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  And I don't know, as I said earlier, it helps me to focus.
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  It helps me to drill down to whatever it is I'm doing with it just kind of happening in the background.
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  When music business worldwide covered a study conducted by a Swedish sound tech soundtrack provider, epidemic sound.
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  The results revealed that classical music had scored by 90% globally on YouTube.
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  This made classical music the fastest growing genre used by content creators in 2022.
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  So content creators, people that are creating their their videos on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok and wherever they're using classical music as their as their background.
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  And this is happening in 2022.
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  This this report came out in 2022.
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  90% of content creators on YouTube were utilizing classical music.
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  The big jump was due to content providers using classical music for the videos they created for their viewers, according to epidemic sound.
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  This surge in classical music uh and and videos sparked 64% increase year over year in classical music downloads via their own epidemic streaming catalog.
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  The classical music titles the company owns were played more than 200 million times on various streaming platforms because the content creators are using them.
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  And the young people are thinking to themselves, I I like this.
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  I like this music happening in the background.
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  I'm going to go see if I can find it.
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  And then they do.
• 32:34
  They download it, they stream it, they listen to it, whatever.
• 32:38
  So as younger generations embrace traditional music, interest in music performance and classical music performance continues to grow.
• 32:51
  Um, did you know there was a violin channel?
• 32:54
  Were you aware?
• 32:55
  I was not aware of this until I read this piece.
• 32:58
  The violin channel made note of their yearly increase in the attendance of orchestra concerts.
• 33:06
  According to the RPO's 2023 study, attendance for for orchestra concerts featuring film music climbed to 30%.
• 33:16
  The organization also experienced a sharp rise in kid-friendly concert attendance, jumping uh from 19% to 26%.
• 33:27
  So the Detroit Philharmonic, I don't know, the past several years, they would uh during the Fourth of July, and and you know, during summer celebrations, they would have these outdoor venue uh concerts at these outdoor venues, and they would play these songs while Bugs Bunny is on the screen.
• 33:53
  You know, I I made reference to Bugs Bunny earlier, the Bugs Bunny cartoons were all set to classical music, which made it a thousand times better.
• 34:04
  So the the Detroit uh orchestra here, they would um you know, from time to time they'll have these concerts where they're they're playing these musical pieces, but they're they're playing it to the bugs bunny cartoon.
• 34:18
  Of course, I don't know that if the younger generation knows who bugs and daffy and uh Elmer Fudd are.
• 34:24
  I mean, they're missing out on some some classical animation, and apparently some classical music to boot.
• 34:32
  Uh but I I recall going to these these concerts and loving them.
• 34:38
  And and now here we are, this 2023 study.
• 34:41
  Uh, we're we're watching this this jump and people attending orchestra concerts up by 30 percent.
• 34:50
  So while interest in live performances focuses on modern uh content, such as uh classically based film soundtracks, the attendance of traditional classical music concerts, um while didn't didn't actually have a leap, it it's holding its own, it's holding steady at a continual, consistent 24%.
• 35:19
  And I think this report says it's been that way for about three years.
• 35:23
  Longtime classical music fans were more likely to prefer traditional classic concerts, 52% as opposed to the younger fans.
• 35:34
  So classical music is on the rise.
• 35:38
  It is it's it's it's going through this um resurgence, as it were, and and people are becoming more interested.
• 35:49
  And as they become more interested, and this is where it really gets interesting.
• 35:55
  There are there are particular things that are happening internally, and and as we listen to this type of music, we're discovering what it what it does for us.
• 36:09
  Uh just a litany of things in particular, how it can help us to heal, how classical music helps us heal.
• 36:22
  Um and I've got this piece here that I just I'm so intrigued by, and I don't know if I'm really gonna have enough time to wrap it up here, but it is again this is another piece by by uh Epoch Times, and and in here they interview a um neurologist by the name of Oliver Sachs.
• 36:47
  And Sachs is the author of the book Musicophilia, which explores the um the way that music affects people on a neurological level, and it's profound, and I'm I'm I'm intrigued by it.
• 37:01
  Sachs says nothing activates the brain so extensively as music, and and he is uh referring to, and and in this study they're referring to to classical, that there's something, I mean, music in general uh affects the brain, but the classical music affects it even at a uh I guess I'll I'll use the word deeper at a deeper neurological level.
• 37:32
  Uh so Oliver Sachs has researched the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, music, medicine.
• 37:41
  Um this is a field that's bringing fruit and clinical settings where music is harnessed for the purpose of healing.
• 37:49
  And researchers are discovering, like Dr.
• 37:52
  Sachs, that uh music reaches deep into the pathways of the mind.
• 37:59
  And there it can be used to transform and heal people.
• 38:03
  Music's healing powers are extensive, according to this piece.
• 38:07
  As research repeatedly shows.
• 38:10
  In the first place, studies have shown that music can reduce pain.
• 38:16
  Um, which they call it music-induced analgesia, a range of conditions involving both acute and chronic pain can be mitigated by and through music therapy.
• 38:31
  It reduces the patient's perception of pain, reduces required pain medication, and decreases depression, according to researchers from the University of Utah Pain Research Center.
• 38:44
  Music helps relieve pain by activating emotional responses, cognitive attention and sense sensory pathways that compete with the pain pathways.
• 38:56
  The pain relieving effects of music appear to even transcend the boundaries between species.
• 39:03
  This is this is interesting.
• 39:05
  In one study, researchers found that playing classical music for dogs undergoing skin surgery decreased the level of anesthetics needed for their procedure.
• 39:16
  Um and so this is there is a benefit here.
• 39:25
  We're not only excited about the growth in classical music, uh, on its face, but the benefits that are going to come from this, the benefits that are going to stem from this, benefits that that are perhaps unrealized in the moment, benefits that we may not even be paying attention to, but they're there, they exist.
• 39:47
  And this study shows uh why this is uh a genre that that we need to be pursuing.
• 39:54
  Okay, I'm looking at the clock, we're up against it.
• 39:56
  Let's pause here.
• 39:57
  We'll dive into this research on the other side of the break.
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  Okay, back to this thought, this idea.
• 42:30
  Not only that is classical music in a resurgence, but the music itself offers something valuable to us that I don't think we consider when we are listening to it, or when we think, hey, let's let's watch classical music.
• 42:51
  I don't think we considered it as kids, at least in my generation when we were listening to classical music while watching Bugs Bunny and The Roadrunner and you know, all the characters from the Looney Tunes.
• 43:06
  I don't I don't know.
• 43:08
  I don't know that we were putting it together.
• 43:10
  But there was there were some things happening, and some things that that do happen to us internally when we enjoy listen to classical music.
• 43:21
  Uh and even as uh it's an alternative or a supplement to pain medication.
• 43:28
  That's not the only thing that it offers.
• 43:30
  It also helps mitigate pre-operation anxiety and the need for sedatives.
• 43:38
  It can curb nausea, uh, vomiting, and and this this research has been done in chemotherapy patients.
• 43:46
  How the classical music has curbed their um their up upset stomachs, it can improve mobility in injured persons or those suffering from diseases that affect motor control, like Parkinson's.
• 44:03
  So in 2008, uh, this this doctor here that there that this article is is referencing, Dr.
• 44:11
  Sachs, 2008.
• 44:13
  He he did this interview with neurology.
• 44:15
  And here's what he said.
• 44:17
  After an injury, you lose the motor patterns and and can forget how to move properly.
• 44:24
  Music, especially the rhythm, can bring you back.
• 44:29
  In general, when one has a disease of the basal ganglia, such as Parkinson's, and low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, the flow of movement, speech, thought, and feeling has either stopped or it takes on a stuttering or sputtering quality.
• 44:48
  Music can reorganize this and give the people a pattern and timing and rhythm, in this case, one that they're lacking.
• 44:58
  So in this way, he says, I do think of music as a sort of prosthesis for injured for the injured part of the brain.
• 45:06
  That that phrase is interesting.
• 45:09
  Music as a prosthesis for the injured part of the brain to help the brain brain along where the rhythm has stopped, the music can come in, and I guess the rhythm's gonna get you.
• 45:23
  That's what uh Gloria Estefan told us back in the 80s and the 90s, the music's gonna get you.
• 45:29
  I mean, it'll it'll get into the brain and act as a prosthesis.
• 45:34
  This is intriguing.
• 45:37
  One of the most striking examples of music's power to heal is the role that it takes in restoring the speech of patients who've lost the ability to talk through injury or through illness.
• 45:51
  Normally formulating speech is handled by the left side of the brain.
• 45:56
  But um music is on the you know music is really on the right side of the brain.
• 46:04
  It affects the right side of the brain.
• 46:06
  So if speeches is handled on the left side and music is filtered through the right side, how can music then help to heal patients who who've lost their ability to speak?
• 46:17
  So when the damaged areas uh such as speech on the left side of the brain are affected.
• 46:25
  Uh, in some way, the brain loses its pathway to speech.
• 46:30
  However, our brains are resilient, and because of neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to adapt and to change and to mold into shape.
• 46:41
  Uh, it's possible that the brain has the ability to develop alternative pathways to recover speech.
• 46:48
  One of them is through music, which utilizes many parts of the brain, but uh, you know, mostly the the the right hemisphere, but it it really affects every region.
• 47:00
  And this is exactly what happened to Congresswoman Gabby Gibb uh Giffords.
• 47:04
  I don't know if you remember this.
• 47:06
  And in 2011, uh, she was shot in the head by a would-be assassin and suffered from aphasia, which is this inability to speak.
• 47:17
  With the help of Megan Morrow, who happens to be a music therapist.
• 47:22
  Gabby Gifford was able to train her brain to use a less common pathway to language when she combined words with melody and rhythm.
• 47:30
  Because music activates many areas of the brain, including emotion and memory.
• 47:37
  Giffords used the undamaged musical parts of her brain to reconnect with the part of the brain involved in speech.
• 47:45
  This is this is intriguing.
• 47:48
  She did this interview with ABC News.
• 47:52
  And uh Morrow, who was the music therapist, Megan Morrow told ABC that this type of musical therapy is like a freeway detour.
• 48:02
  You aren't able to go forward on the language pathway anymore, but then you can exit and go around and get to where you need to go through musical therapy.
• 48:14
  Because musical experience is so deeply rooted in the human mind.
• 48:18
  It can resurrect a person's memory as well as their mental powers that seemed to be irrevocably irreplaceable or completely lost.
• 48:30
  Dementia patients have been known to break out of uh these uh states that they get into when their favorite songs are played.
• 48:40
  Some even engage in conversation about the music while it's happening and even afterwards.
• 48:48
  Music has the power to reach deep into someone and turn a fading spark into a burning flame.
• 48:55
  It can resurrect speech, it can resurrect memories.
• 48:59
  Music has the ability to bring back joy.
• 49:03
  Uh, when asked why music so deeply affects people with dementia or other brain disorders.
• 49:10
  Dr.
• 49:10
  Sachs offered this perfect summary of the enigma of music and its relation to medicine.
• 49:17
  He said it's a great mystery.
• 49:19
  Music doesn't convey information in the usual sense.
• 49:23
  It doesn't represent anything in the external world, but it can move one to the depths.
• 49:31
  Music has a power to elicit every emotion and every mood and every state of mind there is.
• 49:39
  He said, I think this is why it exists in every culture.
• 49:42
  It may speak to people with dementia in a way that is deeper than language, and this can be especially important if language is no longer available.
• 49:53
  And in large part, the music that is.
• 50:00
  tapped into is classical there there's something about about the experience of of the classical music of the the way that that the various orchestra pieces are are are brought together it's a lot different from the steady repeated rhythmic pattern that you will find in uh say pop music i mean you can listen to a a piece of classical beethoven's whatever pick one and even throughout that piece the the rhythm from beginning to end changes it's not the same you know steady boom boom boom boom of the of the bass drum that you're gonna get when you listen to modern music it it speeds up it slows down the rhythm is constantly shifting and constantly changing i wonder what that's doing to our brain and that there's something about that and that this piece this article doesn't cover there's something about that that rhythmic moving and changing which benefits us deeply benefits us in very profound ways and so when it was suggested to me that that waterbrook go to a uh go to an orchestra instead of replacing our band teacher let's let's bring our our our strength teacher and and let's let her uh bring it all under under the umbrella of conducting an orchestra i was i was excited but about the idea and it's it's proving to be a beautiful thing it's it's um parents love it students love it and i'm excited about about the classical schools in michigan getting together and um uh for this this grand orchestra that that we're all going to put together so i don't know what your what your musical interests are i don't know what you what your go to is if it's if it's classical or if it's you know if it's rock if it's 80s you know we're always gonna default to 80s at least you know those of you in in my generation we're all we're always gonna default to 80s but um i love the fact that that bugs bunny and the gang the loony tunes as they were and uh it's it's funny that they were called loony tunes because the tune in the background was always classical and they were always doing something loony to the the classical music that was in the background and I find that that growing up with that cartoon that nostalgia which you couldn't play those cartoons today I mean bugs bunny was always you know shooting somebody in the face with a gun uh you know Elmer Fudd had his gun was always you know chasing the rabbit the wabbit why by golly you can't do that today that's no good uh because uh you know Marxists have have completely well they they just ruin everything they touch they do they destroy everything they touch including cartoons you knew we'd get back around to that didn't you absolutely knew that that we were gonna find our way to somehow get that in um so I don't know what what what's your uh what's your go to and will this do something to you in terms of I mean maybe piquing your interest about classical music I mean maybe go to Spotify right now and just just type in let's let okay let's do this let's I got a few minutes we're gonna go to Spotify and we are um why won't my Spotify open all right my Spotify isn't opening that's fine I was just gonna go and just type in and see what um see what came about that's all I just wanted to see what um you know if I typed in classical music I just wanted to know what was going to come up if it was going to be Beethoven's fifth or you know I don't know I am yeah yeah we're gonna play it more absolutely I would like to pipe it through the uh through the lunchrooms I'd like to get um get a speaker system and pipe classical music while the kids are eating lunch they're not gonna know what's what's hitting them while it's hitting them they're they're gonna be like well why are we feeling so good what so in the morning I've I've started to play it and it has the opposite effect instead of putting people to sleep it just it's a calming it really is it it's a calming and it's a focusing endeavor and um well it's part of a classical education and it's it's why we are uh it's why we're into it so much um 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