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The Mozart Effect
Miracle-Gro for the brain or a flawed money-spinner?
In 1998, the then-governor of the US state of Georgia, Zell Miller, allocated a budget of over $100,000 (£50,300) to pay for albums of selected classical music (mainly Mozart) to be distributed to every new mother in maternity wards throughout the state.
Miller, certainly not alone in his thinking, was in the thrall of The Mozart Effect - the notion that listening to Mozart makes babies (and adults) more intelligent.
We investigate the arguments for and against The Mozart Effect...
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CONCERTS
- RCM Rising Stars
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