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Music Behind Candy Crush Soda Saga Performed by London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road

While some half-a-billion smart phone and tablet users download "casual games" to their devices regularly, it's easy to overlook some of the more minor elements that comprise the game. For Candy Crush Soda Saga, the music is perhaps one of the more impressive details behind the app.
  • Tenor Marco Voleri Recovering After Stage Collapse During Puccini Festival in Italy

    After a most unfortunate series of circumstances, tenor Marco Voleri is fortunately not paralyzed or too seriously injured after an accident with the stage injured the singer. During a performance of "Turandot" at the Puccini Festival in Italy, a platform collapsed and sent Voleri down a 6-foot drop.
  • Medical Study Suggests Music During Surgery Improves Surgeon Accuracy

    Lying on the surgeon's table with an anesthetic rolling through our veins is likely one of our most vulnerable positions. All bets behind us, we must trust the surgeon to do the work they've been trained to do and the medical staff to make the surgeons as comfortable as possible to better guide their steady hand. While a soothing session of music during surgery is still debated for possible healing effects on the unconscious patient, this new medical study by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston suggests that music could be more beneficial to the surgeon in terms of improving performance.
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