The Leonard Lopate Show: Please Explain: The Science of Music

Please Explain: The Science of Music

On today’s edition of our weekly Please Explain feature, Oliver Sacks and Michael Beckerman help us explore the science of music. We’ll look at how music evolved, and find out what makes something music, as opposed to noise. We’ll also look at how music affects our thoughts and moods, and we’ll hear about some of the new studies involving neurology and music.

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Music: Sonatine soundtrack by Joseph Hisaishi (# 6 and 1)
"Mendelssohn and Shostakovich" by Hilary Hahn (Sony Classical) -- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64 #1 "Iko, Iko" by the Greatful Dead

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Liane Curtis from Somerville, MA 02144

This program also includes some clips and discussion of Gideon Klein's String Quartet, which the composer wrote in Theresienstadt, not long before he was murdered in Auschwitz. Prof. Beckerman is engaged in some important research on Klein.

Oct. 28 2008 09:17 PM

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