Mesmerism therapy according to an anonymous French painting dated between 1778 and 1784. The woman on the right is the famous pianist and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Credit: Wellcome Images / ...

Each player in this trio addresses the beat in a spontaneous way, without constant chaos. A casual romp like this session makes for breezy listening. This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and ...

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is an idiosyncratic and restless explorer. An accomplished percussionist, he is known for blurring, if not completely erasing, the boundaries between ...

Hypnosis is a condition in which consciousness is likely to be implied, and the technique that leads to this condition is hypnosis, and in modern times, a treatment method called hypnosis treatment ...

Using self-mesmerism I felt overtaken on a cellular level by a serene form of concentration. I began to accumulate pages and finish my projects. By Ingrid Rojas Contreras One thing I knew as an ...

The word “mesmerism” comes from the name of an 18th-century German physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815). It is considered the forerunner of what is now known as “hypnosis,” although they are ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: March 5th, 1815, 202 years ago today … the day German-born Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer died at the age of 80. Mesmer believed he could harness a force he ...

As Watchmen's stunning sixth episode, "An Extraordinary Being," comes to a close, we've learned a lot about Will Reeves . First, well, he's Hooded Justice . There's that. We learn his past, his ...

The multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey has spent two decades expanding the borders of jazz and fortifying its connections to contemporary classical music. But he takes a far different ...