On February 21, 2025, in Valencia, Spain, @guilhermefelixdj shared a video of a baby captivated by a violinist. In the footage, a violinist dressed with fairy wings performs as a baby approaches ...

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Jack Ashton, who as a kid dreamed of playing shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates before he picked up a violin and went on to inspire generations of students to find the joy in making music, died on ...

Some people go through life thick-skinned. School or career has given them a pragmatic, instrumental, efficiency-maximizing ...

The literature does indicate that passively listening to music can help kids manage anxiety and that actively studying an instrument can have all sorts of far-reaching benefits like improving ...

March 2, 2025, 1:54 PM · For our weekend vote this week, I wanted to look at motivation, and how different kinds of motivation drive each of us. Illustration by Violinist.com. This vote was inspired ...

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