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[Oliver Sacks Picador] doesn't mention Plato's hostility to music, but he mentions Tolstoy's. Tolstoy was in fact highly susceptible to music, and indeed once wrote to Tchaikovsky to tell him that he was developing a new musical theory. Tchaikovsky replied that Tolstoy didn't know what he was talking about, and this seems to be the only time in Tolstoy's life when he bowed to superior knowledge.
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If Music Be the Food of Health. . .
MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN by Oliver Sacks Picador, £17.99, pp. 240 ISBN 9780330418379 £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
Oliver Sacks is a famed neurologist whose books of case studies combine the latest neuroscience with deep humanistic learning. He not only describes his patients with great precision, but also seeks to enter empathically into...See the full content of this document
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