Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

You've probably heard that classical music is good for studying, taking tests and doing creative work. This idea stems from the "Mozart Effect," a term coined in 1993 when scientists discovered that ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. With all sorts of the funding cuts hitting orchestras during the recent ...