In our quest to make you smarter without listening to Yanni, we suggest you consider the Mid-Summer Mozart Festival. It’s wall-to-wall Mozart, and it starts tonight in San Jose, tomorrow at the Herbst Theater, then an outdoors performance on Saturday in Sonoma and Berkeley on Sunday. The Silicon Valley-SF-Sonoma-Berkeley loop repeats next week with a different all-Mozart program.

This week, you’ll listen to a piano concerto with Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska, a bassoon concerto with Rufus Olivier soloing (he’s the principal bassoonist for the SF Opera and the SF Ballet, and you might have heard him with the Stanford Wood Quintet), a symphony and a divertimento for oboe, horns and strings. Then you’ll have 15mn to use your boosted spatial intelligence to get you home in a way you never thought of before. Don't think you'll have an edge in the cab line: everybody will be as juiced as you.

Picture of Yanni from yanni.com.