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What followed was the epitome of small-town activism. First came the NOBODY OWNS KATONAH T shirts and the Marthometer, a parody newspaper handed out at the commuter-train station. By summer, a fund raiser to cover legal bills had been put together; local musician Marc Black sang about Chief Katonah, the town's Native American namesake, as members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian nation, who had been enlisted to share in the outrage, looked on. Two recent high school grads took to the Internet with another protest song ("You're a craftsman who can make a vase...
...what happens when we hear or even compose music. Scans show that, neurally, the experience of imagining music is much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries that by reducing music to a set of neurological functions...
...musical family who still plays his father's Bechstein, Sacks has a strong empathy for the loss suffered by the many neurally damaged musicians who have found their way to him. Most touching of all is his tale of Clive Wearing, an English musician stricken in 1985 with a post-brain-infection amnesia so devastating that from one minute to the next he does not know who, where or what he is. At 69, just two things are unscathed in his inner life: a profound love for his wife and the ability to sing or play on the piano...
...first, MTV Arabia has to find the right mix of old and new. On a recent afternoon, producers reviewed a commercial featuring a traditional Arabic music ensemble, with one musician on the lutelike oud. Little by little, the oud player went wild and trashed his instrument, Jimi Hendrix-style. The meeting erupted. "You don't just break an oud," said a producer. Another chimed in, "We don't want it to be seen that MTV is coming from America and breaking your oud." An alternate ending is in the works...
...movies with music. “I followed my love of music,” he explained. “From a young age, I knew I wanted to be a songwriter.” After graduation, Kraft moved to New York and earned a living as a jazz musician. There he wrote and performed a new song every day. This persistence led him to a recording contract, and he relocated to Los Angeles, where he pragmatically capitalized on every opportunity he came across. “A lot of people are very precious of what they work on?...