From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re still not sure whether our brains evolved specifically to process music, or music happened to make use of neural pathways that had developed for other reasons.

It’s Friday and it’s National Relaxation Day! Take a nice deep breath and have a chill day with music like the Meditation from Thaïs by Jules Massenet, today on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

Stuart Greenbaum has been the recipient of funding from The Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Classical music means more than one thing and explanation is in order. Sometimes I make ...