New research on the complex neurological activity that is singing!

The great St. Augustine (354-430) is credited with the statement that argues when a person sings, he or she prays twice. While many credit Augustine with the honor of being the earliest psychologist because of his breakthrough work Confessions (No, it isn't a slimy tell-all gossipy account of his wine, women and song days in Carthage-the Las Vegas of North Africa!) it is clear that he had some sense of the fuller engagement of the person by singing as opposed to simply speaking.

A recent posting of the BBC news discusses recent research on this topic. Dr Aniruddh Patel from the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, said the study was an example of the "explosion in research into music and the brain" over the last decade. Dr. Patel is quoted as saying "Music engages huge swathes of the brain - it's not just lighting up a spot in the auditory cortex." You can read the entire posting here. Just another advantage of the musical life of choristers at the Choir School!