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Dan Hsiao
Television Review - 'Nova - Musical Minds' - Oliver Sacks Ponders the Brain and Music - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Television Review - 'Nova - Musical Minds' - Oliver Sacks Ponders the Brain and Music - NYTimes.com
Television Review - 'Nova - Musical Minds' - Oliver Sacks Ponders the Brain and Music - NYTimes.com
"“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia,” a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as Dr. Sacks puts it, “music gets them going to an extraordinary degree.” A one-hour program can’t approach the depth and texture of Dr. Sacks’s book, but it does get at one question that nags the reader: What do these musical savants sound like? Or put another way: Are they really as amazing as they’re cracked up to be?" - Dan Hsiao from Bookmarklet