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How participating in music benefits your brain

10/7/2014

This fascinating video does a great job describing how music study affects the brain! Much the same can be said for singing. Music For All!

Choir alum recognized with TeenNick Halo Award

9/4/2014

Read the entire interview with Virginia HERE.

Lafayette Choir Alum, Virginia Newsome is recognized by TeenNick as the September Halo Award winner for her outstanding work as founder of heARTS. Congrats, Virginia, Lafayette is proud of you!

Singing Revolution in the Lex. Herald Leader

3/12/2014

Documentary shows that music can lead a revolution
BY MERLENE DAVIS
Herald-Leader columnist - March 12, 2014

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/03/12/3136028/merlene-davis-documentary-shows.html

The Singing Revolution is coming

2/17/2014

The Lafayette High School Choir will host a special screening of “The Singing Revolution” on Saturday, March 15 at 7 p.m. at Lexington Christian Academy.

“The Singing Revolution” tells the moving and dramatic story of how the Estonian people used song and speech to help topple an empire and regain their freedom along the way.

Come hear this incredible story and see how music and culture quite literally changed the world. This is an inspiring film for all lovers of music and the arts. We hope you will experience this event with us and support the Lafayette Choir in this one-of-a-kind event. More

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Is Music the Key to Success?

10/14/2013

What is it about serious music training that seems to correlate with outsize success in many diverse fields? This is the question asked by Joanne Lipman in this New York Times article. The article profiles former Fed Chair, Alan Greenspan; movie man, Woody Allen; co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, among others.

Read the entire article here.

Joanne Lipman is a co-author, with Melanie Kupchynsky, of the book “Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations.”

"Consider the qualities these high achievers say music has sharpened: collaboration, creativity, discipline and the capacity to reconcile conflicting ideas. All are qualities notably absent from public life. Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening."

How participating in music benefits your brain

Choir alum recognized with TeenNick Halo Award

Singing Revolution in the Lex. Herald Leader

The Singing Revolution is coming

Is Music the Key to Success?

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