The Festival Beat

December 27, 2023
Your Mind Loves Music

That music affects our brains, mood, and emotions in often inexplicable ways is something we have known instinctively since the dawn of consciousness. But over the last few decades, advances in neuroscience, psychology, and brain science have been spurring symphonies of research and findings to help us understand the how and the why of it all.

December 21, 2023
Renée Fleming Did Not Faint

How can one even begin to do In Depth justice to an artist like Renée Fleming? One of our country’s most acclaimed artist’s, she is a five-time Grammy winner (18 nominations), a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, a Kennedy Center Honor (just weeks ago), the Crystal Award from the WEF in Davos, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and honorary membership in England's Royal Academy of Music.

December 14, 2023
Answering Parents' Hard Questions

Workparenting was built on Daisy Dowling's interviews with thousands of parents about how they had finessed this or that part of the dual roles of parent and worker.

December 7, 2023
The Fury and the Sound of JAWS

Pathbreaking film, allegorical fable, heart-stopping thriller – no matter how you slice it, JAWS is in a league of its own.

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