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...product of the simultaneous, high-frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, according to Crick and Koch, just as the tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex and seamless sound of a symphony orchestra. The concept is highly speculative, Crick acknowledges in his book The Astonishing Hypothesis (which carries the ironic subtitle The Scientific Search for the Soul). "If you think I appear to be groping my way through the jungle," he writes, "you are right...
...Listening to Hank Jones play--it's like listening to an orchestra," Haden says. An orchestra full of sly virtuosity that finds in its past not only inspiration but also renewal. Jones is 76, playing at the top of his form and calling on a whole lifetime of talent. Born in Detroit, where he would go to meeting at the Michigan Baptist Church, Jones ultimately chose to follow the jazz life, a through route from home to perdition. "My father," he recalls, "thought jazz was the music of the devil." The devil took him straight to the Apple; took...
Haden put down his professional roots in Los Angeles, winning fame first as a session man, then as creator of two formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...
Mostly he has been doing that overseas. Simultaneously, Nagano is music director in Lyons, France; leader of the venerable Halla Orchestra in Manchester, England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
...Francisco. He studied conducting at San Francisco State University and sang with the San Francisco Opera chorus before joining Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston as an apprentice conductor. Returning to the Bay Area in 1979, he won a reputation by leading the small Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (now the Berkeley Symphony) in such unlikely concert-opera ventures as Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Broucek...