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Podcast summary
"The poet laureate of medicine" (New York Times) examines the complexities of our response to music and the particular powers of music to move us physically and emotionally, beneficially or destructively, showing how we humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one.
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Participant(s) Bio
Oliver Sacks is the author of nine previous books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City, where he is a practicing neurologist.
Ara Guzelimian is the Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School, the distinguished performing arts conservatory, in New York City. Prior to the Juilliard appointment, he was Senior Director and Artistic Advisor of Carnegie Hall from 1998 to 2006. As a writer and music critic, he has contributed to many publications, including Musical America, Opera Quarterly, Opera News, Symphony, and the New York Times. He is editor of Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society, a collection of dialogues between Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said.
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ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, City National Bank, KPMG, Donna and Martin J. Wolff, the law firm Arent Fox, and through the support of The Library Associates. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM, KUSC 91.5 FM and KCET. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.
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