Musicality is a group that began in 2008 after a group of students from Curie Metropolitan High School (Chicago, Illinois) expressed interest in continuing music after the spring musical had ended.

In this talk, Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson of King’s College, London, invites us to consider how we can use musical performance to empathise with others. Musicality was a vocal group act from Season 11 of America's Got Talent. The Science: Research on the sounds that caregivers exchange with infants has profound implications for the way we understand classical music: how we sing and play these scores and how music moves us. The Wikipedia entry on musicality is a little shaky, based on the Merriam-Webster definition: Musicality is sensitivity to, knowledge of, or skill for music or the attribute or condition of being musical, according to the dictionary. The Bach buffs among us may recognise elements of this festive cantata as it has been suggested that the piece was a sketch for the aria, ‘Großer Herr und starker König’ from his Christmas Oratorio. Let us now know about the musicality definition. The Music: ‘Wondrous birth! O wondrous Child!’ This Advent Cantata is a joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus, the miracle child. The digital programme for this concert is available here. In this season of the OAE pay tribute to the scale of Bach’s ambition by pairing his cantatas with talks from leading figures in the world of science on the nature of human ambition our successes and the limitations that we still strive to overcome. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment present their stimulating Sunday Service: Bach, the Universe & Everything.

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