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All State Honors Bands:  
                                    
Music Center Spotlight Awards:   

    
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Colburn School of Music:       

               
Asia America Symphony:

Amuse Music:

Joyful Music and Arts:

Alva's Music

​Jazz Angels

www.cbda.org

www.musiccenter.org/education/Students-at-the-Center/Spotlight/

www.colburnschool.edu/page.cfm?p=2904

  
www.asiaamericasymphony.org

http://amusemusic.com/

https://www.joyfulmusicandarts.com/

​https://alvasmusic.com/

www.jazzangel.org


​​Interested in Jazz Improvisation?

​Join the Jazz Angels in Long Beach for your chance in the "spotlight".  This group meets every Sunday afternoon/evening providing students the opportunity to learn improvisation in a nurturing, pressure free environment.  For more details, contact Barry Cogert at barry@jazzangel.org or go to their website at www.jazzangel.org.

theJazzAngels
3258 E Willow St.
Signal Hill, CA  90755
(562) 981-8410



​How Beneficial is Early Childhood Music Training?

Psych Central:
Childhood Music Lessons Can Aid Adult Listening
By JANICE WOOD Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 22, 2012


A little music training in childhood goes a long way in improving how the brain functions in adulthood, according to a new study.

Compared to people with no musical training, adults with one to five years of musical training as children had enhanced brain responses to complex sounds, making them more effective at pulling out the fundamental frequency of the sound signal, researchers at Northwestern University report.  “Musical training as children makes better listeners later in life,” said Dr. Nina Kraus, a professor of neurobiology, physiology and communication sciences at Northwestern...
the study suggests that short-term music lessons may enhance lifelong listening and learning. 

To read this article in it's entirety, click on the link below:  
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/08/22/childhood-music-lessons-can-aid-adult-listening/43510.html

Top 17 Ways Learning a Musical Instrument Gives You and Edge

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/top-17-ways-learning-musical-instrument-gives-edge.html?ref=fbp&n=3