Music on the Brain

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
A study conducted by researchers from Montreal's McGill University earlier this year 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 to explain why a Puccini opera may make your heart flutter. Also, Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle. She's the world's most recorded musician, having been featured in nearly 1,000 Bollywood films over six decades. And finally, composer Michael Galasso discusses his collaboration with experimental director Robert Wilson on Henrik Ibsen's verse-drama "Peer Gynt." This is a repeat edition of Soundcheck

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