蜜芽传媒

Barbara de Biasi describes how playing music 'lights up your brain' and can help children achieve more at school, have better co ordination and store memories more effectively. However, the numbers of children taking music classes is falling. Presenter Anu Anand wonders if this is because parents are now concentrating on more academic tuition - but would children do better at these if they included music in their studies?

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