Have you ever wondered why it's easier to remember music you heard decades ago compared to what you had for breakfast last week? "Music is remarkably resistant to forgetting," says Steffen Herff, ...

Music has a remarkable ability to evoke powerful memories and emotions. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. Music can act as a direct line to our ...

Listening to music immediately after learning new information may help improve memory retention in older adults and ...

In honor of the Hastings Symphony Orchestra’s centenary season, Hastings Museum’s special exhibit, “HSO: A Century of Sound,” ...

Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it’s the tune that was playing during your first dance, or the anthem of a memorable road trip. People often think ...

Music motivates and inspires and is a powerful and nonthreatening medium and therefore, people with Alzheimer’s react ...

If the walls of the Sacajawea Middle School band room could talk, they’d likely whisper about the many students who found a lifelong love of music and education within its confines. Those walls will ...

I think of music in terms of the memories I hold for different songs. So when I got to thinking about this past year in music, my mind didn’t go so much to the analysis and ratings of the music I ...

It happens to the best of us � we�re driving in the car, shopping in the grocery store or cooking dinner in the kitchen and a song comes on that stops us in our tracks, viscerally taking us back ...

Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it’s the tune that was playing during your first dance or the anthem of a memorable road trip. People often think ...

Anne and Bruce Hunt didn’t expect to be very good singers. After all, the pair had not been part of a singing group in more than 50 years. But Anne Hunt, 82, a retired writer, had recently been ...