Watching the Queen's Cartoonists perform live is a spectacle. There are cartoons, alongside jazz, a wide range of musical instruments, noise-making props and on-stage shenanigans.

A new study published in the journal Science Advances found that learning to play a musical instrument can help keep brains young, plus make people better listeners. The study is out of China.

Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist by profession, writes about music, learning to play a variety of instruments, and what it’s taught him about life.