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In the Press • July 17, 2009

Wow, there’s big backlog from the last several months. In no particular order:

    • Wynton Marsalis’s commencement speech at Northwestern University [Northwestern University]
    • Ending a 60-Year Gig at the N.Y. Philharmonic. Stanley Drucker retires [New York Times]
    • Music a ‘mega-vitamin’ for the brain. Sing for Joy – a choir made up of sufferers of neurological conditions plus friends, family and carers. [CNN]
    • The power of music: It’s a real heart opener. Hospitals across the country use music therapy to help patients heal [CNN]
    • Music critic for the New Yorker, Alex Ross, writes about the use of music in psychological warfare [The New Yorker]
    • Arts education would provide right balance [Columbus Dispatch]
    • NU’s first 26-hour Music Marathon raises funds for children’s music school [Daily Northwestern]
    • Ben Folds goes back to school [CNN]
    • Even isolated cultures understand emotions conveyed by Western music [Cognitive Daily]
    • Wynton Marsalis:2009 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy [Americans for the Arts]
    • Vocal group Conspirare sings an amazing arrangement of Eric Whitacre’s What it filmed for a PBS concert [Soaring Leap]