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Andrew Bird

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird’s mother believed that learning classical music as a child is ideal because it engages the brain in a way similar to how we learn language early in life. She thought this connection would make the music more natural and deeply understood by the children.

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