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Research has been done many times to see if there’s a correlation between learning an instrument and intelligence, and it has been found that those who have learned to play an instrument often are better at multi-tasking and are able to problem solve better than those who don’t know how to play music. Children in some of the recent studies have been tested for higher-level thinking, and those who knew how to play an instrument did better in this area than their counterparts who didn’t.

Studies are now being done to eliminate the potential for outside factors to also have an impact on the results, which can help narrow down whether there is an actual causation. Future studies have plans to watch the participants over a significant period of time to see just how learning how to play impacts their intelligence.

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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

Edward Albee occasionally expressed exasperation at being forever identified as the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “The play,” he wrote in a programme note to the 1996 Almeida production, “has hung about my neck like a shining medal of some sort.”

Yet Albee exercised fierce control over all productions. I was recently told of a brilliant British actor who was summoned to Albee’s New York apartment for a reading of the play prior to an intended Broadway production with Patti LuPone. Albee’s mounting dismay at the British actor’s textual quibbles meant that, by the end of a long afternoon, all hopes of the production had been abandoned.

Albee’s protective attitude to his play stemmed in part, I suspect, from the fact that it is widely misunderstood. The searing Mike Nichols 1966 film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, stamped it in the public mind as a liquor-fuelled marital slugfest. But the play, I am convinced, is as much about the state of the Union as about marriage.

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