The list goes on, but the real question is why do people with musical training tend to achieve more in life? There are differing theories about that, but studies have shown a direct correlation between music and the brain's ability to adapt to the world around it. One such test showed that people that had listened to just ten minutes of Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major" and then took a spatio-temporal reasoning test (which is a part of a standardized intelligence test) scored 48% higher than the control group while a second study done at the University of California, Irvine on what has been called the "Mozart Effect" shows a increased IQ score of nine points.
Of our 42 US Presidents, two of them were pianists, both Richard Nixon and Harry S. Truman. Even today, famous politicians such as Condeleeza Rice serve who is a wonderful pianist, who at one time considered becoming a concert pianist before pursuing her degrees in international relations and economics.
I’m 14 and I really want to play the piano really bad. I haven’t had a chance to try when i was younger because my parents were new to the United States and they didn’t speak much english. But now i’m older and i know what music stores give lessons and stuff. So i was wondering if I’m at an okay age level to start learning to play the piano. and also is playing a piano and winning a competition good on college applications?
About 14 years ago an adult student came to Yare for piano lessons. "I usually take children who are beginning," she said. "So this was something different. He inspired me incredibly. He made me think I could expand what I was doing."
