The Festival Beat

Our 90-minute Virtual Gala was a huge success, raising over $25,000 for our music education programs. You can rewatch some or all of the program here.

It’s not every genre-bending, next-gen classical band that gets invited to perform at the host city’s Super Bowl party. But then Nu Deco Ensemble is not every band.

The very abbreviated story of the internet and international sensation known as Postmodern Jukebox, which went from zero to one billion views in just 7 years.

“The real key to success,” Amy Walters says, “doesn’t come from getting the right internship. It comes instead from knowing your own values and your own value. You don’t have to know what you want to do with the rest of your life today. But you need to know who you are and what matters to you.”

Finding the keys to happiness, says Dr. Laurie Santos, requires tapping into our primate brains, and observing the behavior and activities of those who report being very happy. And the results are often surprising, but also uplifting.
 

Roz Chast goes through the world with the eyes of a cartoonist, of a graphic storyteller who is constantly identifying and lampooning the ever anxious and self-conscious American middle class.