[Dixielandjazz] Music Soothes the Savage Breast and Animates The Hemisphe...

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Not off topic for me, Steve.  I've ordered the book since reading your  post. 
 (I also really liked your post a week or so ago on music lessons  increasing 
earning power.)  Back to Dr. Sacks:  He is also a fine  musician himself.  
Many probably saw the 1990 film, "Awakenings" in  which Robin Williams portrayed 
Dr. Sacks.  The day I went to hear Dr. Sacks  give a lecture, he came on 
stage impersonating Robin Williams portraying  him.  Instantly grabbed his 
audience and kept them rapt.
 
Two quick thoughts triggered by reading the review you posted and the stuff  
at Amazon.com  One per cent of the general population find music toxic--it  is 
literally painful to them!  It's a brain thing which I believe musicians  
should respect.  And even though many autistic thrive with music stimuli,  there 
are also autists to whom it is painful, Dr. Temple Grandin, for  example.
 
Four neat video clips of Dr. Sacks on this book at Amazon:
_http://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Oliver-Sacks/dp/1400040817/ref
=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195580202&sr=8-1_ 
(http://www.amazon.com/Musicophilia-Tales-Music-Oliver-Sacks/dp/1400040817/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=boo
ks&qid=1195580202&sr=8-1) 
 
Ginny
 
In a message dated 11/20/2007 9:56:28 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

Off  topic perhaps, but is this why we all hear music differently and can
seldom  agree on definitions of things like "Jazz", or "OKOM"?

Cheers,
Steve  Barbone

NY Times Book Review By MICHIKO KAKUTANI - November 20,  2007
MUSICOPHILIA  - Tales of Music and the Brain
By Oliver Sacks  -3 81 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.



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