Research shows that playing a musical instrument does amazing things to our brains — and especially in young children.

By Joshua BaroneSeth Colter WallsZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them ...

It’s easy to chalk it up to Cornell being a sonic genius ... hearing that delicate guitar riff being played on an acoustic guitar actually makes the song work even more. Since Smith is singing from ...