From the blog

• February 06, 2019 Colorado Symphony's Fascinating Programming This Spring!

  The waning interest in the pure classical repertoire has been in the news for many years, difficulties of traditional symphonies to get audiences.  Hold onto your hats!  There's excitement in our concert halls!  Check out the interesting programming that the expert CSO musicians will be putting together for you and your family:

  COMICON - THIS WEEKEND - 2/8/19 - Comic Con series! It’s an evening of pure magic with your favorite scores from Comic Con-themed movies and video games, and V will bring even more spectacular bombastic pop-culture fun.

  BROADWAY SHOWS - SONDHEIM & LLOYD-WEBER THIS WEEKEND 2/9 - their show-stopping scores that set the stage for their beloved musicals.

  VALENTINE'S DAY ROMANCE - 2/14 - a uniquely American look at the themes of love.

  DISNEY IN CONCERT - MARY POPPINS - 3/8/2019 - what more is there to say?

  PETER AND THE WOLF  3/10/2010 - a traditional concert program, wonderful every year...

   

   

   

• January 30, 2019 Music, Architecture and Life...
  One of the biggest joys of owning a music store is the interesting people we get to talk to every day.  Almost every customer and shopper wants to hang out a bit and tell us their story of which we are always very interested.  This last week at the Colorado Music Educators Conference, we talked to hundreds of musicians, mostly music educators.  There was one father who stood out.  His son was the teacher, but he told us his story and journey in his career as an architect but his love and passion for music.  I was so touched by his story, I asked if we could video tape it for you to hear it from him.  Please CHECK IT OUT.
• January 22, 2019 The Moon, Music, Rhythm...

  The Moon and Universe…

  Our Universe Mother holds us in her warm darkness, the moon lights our hearts like a warm glowing candle, the stars sparkle with brilliance, twinkling laughter of joy, come home all to the beauty, warmth of the dark night, let the vibrations roll into our very being with a rhythm of wellness, health, connection to you, me, all that is.  Universe music wrap me in your blanket of knowing and peace…  rhythm child sleep, home in the velvety darkness… -  Anonymous

   

  The recent lunar eclipse drew the attention of the entire world this week.  What is it about the Moon?  The Moon’s rhythm and vibrations tie to our very existence, our health and feelings… 

   

   “All life exists within a sea of vibration…  rhythm is fundamental to all of life… many aspects of human behavior and physiology is correlated with the phases of the moon.  Our lives contain a seeming infinity of rhythms… rhythms of the breath, heartbeat, and brain are intimately related to our emotions, thoughts, and psychospiritual state.”  

   

  “Rhythm is the fundamental characteristic of music. In frequencies, timbres, and the passage of beats through time to form rhythms, music is an apt metaphor for this carrier of life-information. And the notion that music can touch the core of our being and is as old as human consciousness.”

   

  “A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body.”

   

  “Rhythms show up in many aspects of life. They affect the way we feel day by day or throughout the seasons. They affect our moods and attitudes deeply.”  life is intimately connected to a wide variety of natural rhythms.”

   

  “And just as music can have the capacity to touch our deepest sentiments and evoke feelings across the entire spectrum of human emotion, as scientists begin to understand the language of health, emotions, and heart rate variability and begin to decode the language of cellular vibrations and biofield information, it may be possible to develop new forms of healing. As healers have used music for therapeutic purposes for centuries, might cell-music or EMF ‘biomusic’ be further developed as a kind of medicine?:  This way of healing can be studied and understood by studying the music of one's own life, by studying the rhythm of the pulse, the rhythm of the beating of the heart and of the head… “   Life Rhythm as a Symphony of Oscillatory Patterns: Electromagnetic Energy and Sound Vibration Modulates Gene Expression for Biological Signaling and Healing, Muehsam & Ventura Glob Adv Health Med. 2014 Mar.

   

  Music as a new branch of medicine?  What do you think?

   

  We’re ready to help you at Golden Music to find an instrument to enhance healthy rhythms… or please come around, be part of our community, join us for a good long chat about music…

• January 13, 2019 What Is Music?

  Golden Music staff works everyday with musicians and families and friends of musicians, we often think about the nature of music.  What's it's purpose, what is it exactly?

  A very interesting article came across my desk today*.  

  Flutes were discovered made from bone found in Germany, the earliest recorded instruments placed at about 200,000 years old, meaning our species as we are developed today were music makers.  What was music's role in our ancestors' lives?  What is it in our lives, in our community?

  Music establishes COMMUNITY.

  A mother humming to her child (probably came before language), ancestral men dancing and singing before a hunt.  Researchers state “By establishing such a bond between individuals, music created not only the family, but society itself...  Our Ancestors' lives depended on the hunt and used music in the ceremonies. It paved the way for us to communicate with each other and to share emotions."
  
  As centuries went by, Music's ability to communicate emotions was precisely what made it persist after the development of language.  On top of that, there is an instinctive function of music--to make us feel good.  Songs activate the frontal lobe, produce dopamine and act on the cerebellum, which is able to “synchronize itself” to the rhythm of the music, which causes pleasure. “It’s like a toy for the brain,” that also stimulates creativity.  For years, we've been quoting the influence of music study on the develop of children, that's old news.

  What's so interesting is this research that music is about bonding and communication.  We strive to create music community thrives on the bonds we develop.  We have four community groups right now as well as our private lesson program, where wonderful music mentors work with developing musicians.  I would also say that we strive to bond with you when you come to our store, as we discuss your music needs and dreams.  

  Golden Music supports your music connections!

  All data for this blog came from:  https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/what-is-the-purpose-of-music/  Joana Oliviera