A study indicated that songs with a tempo of 50-60 beats per minute (BPM) significantly reduced cortisol levels in dogs, leading to a more relaxed demeanor. Given that many popular Christmas songs ...

Music can influence blood pressure, increasing or decreasing the systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) pressure based on the tempo and volume of the song and other factors. Slower, softer music tends ...

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Each December, the Nobel ceremony transforms years—and often decades—of painstaking intellectual work into one of the world’s ...

Since Joanna MacGregor became Artistic Director of the The Brighton Philharmonic, the Orchestra has developed a reputation ...

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From left, Gustavo Dudamel, Pauchi Sasaki and Claire Chase, Peter Sellars (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; photographs by Etienne Laurent / For The Times, Maria Alejandra ...

The concert spanned a range of types of music, including film music, folk dance type tunes and romantic symphonies, Kristen ...

In 2025 we said goodbye to many prominent figures spanning politics, the arts, the media, the civic arena and science.

The old Lodge hotel in Bettendorf was torn down in 2016, but a new Lodge has opened inside the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd ...