Even banjo music can inspire introspection.

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This year he founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation to inspire young children to play and is hoping to take time off from concerts to devote to teaching.

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This transcendent potential of music - the implied belief in music's ability to inspire an audience to unite and overlook differences - serves as the foundation for the ideals of the Redwood String Ensemble.

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The film is in part about the power of music to travel, and to inspire, in unpredictable ways.

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The Vertigo songs have vanished from the scene, but Herrmann's score has continued to inspire adulation and controversy of a kind rarely seen in film music.

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The recordings gave rise to the Playing for Change Foundation, an initiative aiming to inspire, educate and empower youth in Africa and other developing regions by building music schools in communities from Ghana and South Africa to Mali and Tibet.

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As a result, rock music became a powerful solvent of the state's credibility and power to inspire loyalty.

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But neither they nor the placid herbivores inspire anything close to awe, even with the aid of audience stimulants like surging symphonic music (by the shameless John Williams) and repeated closeups of wide-eyed, openmouthed actors.

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