Posted by Music to Feed the Soul and the Brain: Guy Sebastian and a musical strike force including Australian music legend James Morrison, leading music educator Michael McCarthy from WA Academy of Performing Arts and brain scientist Anita Collins feature in this outstanding series documenting a 9-month music program set up in a school in Perth’s lower socio-economic south-eastern suburbs.
Anita Collins says ” Two decades of frenzied research has now found that music education grows, hones and permanently improves neural networks like no other activity. Children who undertake formal, ongoing music education have significantly higher levels of cognitive capacity, specifically in their language acquisition and numerical problem solving skills.”
This is compelling viewing: Don’t miss it !
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/events/dstm/
