The study found that playing an instrument primes the brain to choose what is relevant in a complex process that may involve reading or remembering a score, timing issues and coordination with other musicians.
For this particular ball we built in a podium across the windows for the musicians to be ever so slightly elevated so that they play a bit more of a role in the picture.
That night at Mrs. Elsing's, when Fanny had been duly married and old Levi and the other musicians were tuning up for the dance, Scarlett looked about her with gladness.
And so we had a day of rehearsal and we luckily, really last minute, got this amazing birth consultant called Alana McAllister who has been a doula for many years to fly over from Portland.