I was late coming to love classical music.  I remember my mother playing Peter and the Wolf on our record player when I was a child, and I was just not interested. 

But things changed somewhere along the way, and I admit that I now know zero about popular music.  (Well, I could name a few world-famous stars.) 

Our journalist son Seth referred to us in print as his “classical-music-loving-parents”.  And although our CD collection was not century specific, we did have a lot of Mozart and his contemporaries.

So, imagine my delight when I learned that medical studies have shown that listening to Mozart (and Strauss) has a positive effect on heart rate and blood pressure. 

And the single best piece of music for your health, according to researchers?

Mozart’s Symphony #40 in G Minor.