From Music and the Mind, to the Queen of Bollywood

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
A study conducted by researchers from Montreal's McGill University this past weekend had conductor Keith Lockhart, musicians in the Boston Symphony, and their audience members wearing special sensors in an unusual attempt to monitor their emotional responses to music. Dr. Daniel Levitin, a cognitive neuroscientist who is a member of the McGill team, joins us. Find out why a Pucini opera may make your heart flutter. Also, composer Michael Galasso discusses his collaboration with experimental director Robert Wilson on Henrik Ibsen's verse-drama "Peer Gynt." And Bollywood movie star Asha Bhosle, the world’s most recorded musician.

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