Happy New Year, Dear Reader I hope that you have enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and that 2014 brings you all the happiness, peace and prosperity that your heart desires. 2014 will mark the Chinese New Year of the wooden (or green) horse. It will also be the year that I finally come home to Yorkshire, to my family and friends, and to my fiance (yes, dear reader, he proposed over the holidays!) A new year brings new challenges. My beloved course on ‘Music and the Brain’ will come to an end here at the Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland and I will move into a period of exciting grant writing with…