In the age of hyper-connectivity and multi-tasking, staying focused during a two- or three hour classical music performance can feel like a workout. At a Kennedy Center concert in Washington, DC last week, I sat next to a woman who popped some gummy vitamins as Russian virtuoso Daniil Trifonov played a blistering passage from Stravinsky’s…

via The classical music concert is a vital workout for our sagging, flabby attention spans — Quartz