So, here we go again--another year, another survey saying that classical music is good for kids. This one comes from the Institute of Education at the University of London. Children aged between seven and 10 were exposed to classical music at school assembly and a series of six lessons. The study found that their concentration skills were positively affected.
As my first sentence might suggest, this kind of story is hardly new. And much as we classical music fans would love to believe that the composers we love could cure the world's ills, we've been burned before by the controversial so-called "Mozart effect," the widespread belief that playing specifically Mozart's music to babies turns them into higher-performing adults.
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