In fact, music can enhance meditation, and make it easier for newbies. Like meditation, "music has its own power to calm us down or help us tap into deeper levels of feeling or even consciousness," ...

John Schaefer: You’re listening to the final episode from the Artist Propulsion Lab class of 2022. I’m John Schaefer. To wrap things up, composer and saxophonist Steven Banks, and his collaborator, ...

Sometimes a little violin envy can go a long way, even for an award-winning cellist such as Narek Hakhnazaryan, whose ­admiration for the smaller string instrument elicited his best playing during a ...