Washington City Paper contributor Sadie Dingfelder has received an Evert Young/Seth Payne Award honorable mention for her outstanding cover story from our 2009 Arts in Review issue, "Writing Music for Monkeys." Dingfelder's feature follows David Teie, a cellist in the National Symphony Orchestra who is working on a "unified field theory of music, one that [...]

“I may be just a schmo to you,” says National Symphony Orchestra cellist Pavla Teie, “but, man, to monkeys I am Elvis.”
Working on a universal field theory of music centered on the notion that all human compositions are rooted in sounds we hear in the womb, Teie began creating music for monkeys, Sadie Dingfelder reports [...]

If you want to mellow out a monkey, play him some Metallica.
That's the surprising result of a new study by Charles Snowdon, a
University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor. The researchers played clips of music— including Metallica's
"Of Wolf and Man," Nine Inch Nails', "The Fragile," Tool's "The
Grudge," and Barber's "Adagio for Strings"—for cotton-top tamarins.