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inside carlos kalmar’s brain

by Charles Noble on January 26, 2009

Carlos Kalmar – Photo: Oregon Symphony
In case you missed it, the Oregonian ran a story about our music director Carlos Kalmar taking part in a brain study at OHSU.  It involved Kalmar being put into an MRI machine, then listening to a movement of Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony (which he was rehearsing that week) while being [...]

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more flanagan report analysis

by Charles Noble on April 8, 2008

Brian Rood, member of the Kansas City Symphony and ICSOM President, has written an interesting and accessible analysis of the methodology, history and findings of the by now practically infamous Flanagan Report. You can read it in its entirety after the jump.

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we’re smarter – but why?

by Charles Noble on March 7, 2008

It’s in its early stages, but a study by the DANA foundation is examining whether people interested in the arts are smarter to begin with, or if their intelligence is stimulated and improved by their exposure to the arts.

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