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Many of us worry that the older we get, the more cognitive decline we’ll experience. As we age, our brains change and lose that youthful plasticity — it can be harder to learn new things, or easily forget names and places.
Die Stimme von Joni Mitchell "Unter allen entsetzlichen Dingen ist das entsetzlichste die Musik - wenn sie erst erlernt wird." So sah es der Dramatiker Christian Friedrich Hebbel. Einen Monat lang werden in den "Hörbildern" Musiker/innen porträtiert, die ihr Handwerk bereits bestens erlernt und es darin zur Meisterschaft gebracht haben. Joni Mitchell, die Singer-Songwriterin aus Kanada macht den Anfang - und wird mit ihrer Stimme verführen. 2. Juli 2021, 13:31 Hörbilder Sommerserie Leidenschaft Musik von 3. Juli bis 31. Juli Keine Mühe hörbar. Was mir ein Feature über die Stimme von J...
This sampling of collected quotes over the past 10 years stands the test of time
In many European cultures, as well, music is for playing and sharing. Walking down a street in France, I stop to admire a duet — a guitar player and an accordionist. “Do you play?” I am asked in faltering English. “Sure,” I reply, “but…” and the guitar is handed over. “Alors rejoinez nous” — please join us — and then I am playing three- or four-chord songs I have never heard before but that have patterns that make sense to a musician’s ear, with new friends I have never met before. Late at night, in a street in a small beachside village in Mexico, a group of men...
0 April 29, 2021 18:55 by Olivia Stock Tolu Sangowawa Hardwired into our memory during a critical time and seeped in glorious nostalgia, the songs we hear as teenagers tend to remain lifelong favourites. From Tame Impala to The Beatles, Gambino to George Michael, Tolu Sangowawa explores why we’re obsessed with music from our youth. Ever felt nostalgic about a past generation that you were never actually a part of? Or felt the emotional pain and sorrow of a youthful love story that you never actually lived? Well, same. Whilst there are all sorts of scientifi...