Music & Memory
Schedule
Sat Oct 26 2024 at 03:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Church of the Redeemer Anglican Church | Toronto, ON
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When we “remember” a melody, it plays in our mind, it becomes newly alive. There is not a process of recalling, imagining, assembling, recategorizing, re-creating, as when one attempts to reconstruct or remember an event or a scene from the past. We recall one tone at a time and each tone entirely fills our consciousness, yet simultaneously relates it to the whole.– Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia
Music & Memory is a multi-media Kaffeemusik that explores the mysteries of how music is stored in the human brain. The playful script will juxtapose old stories (such as Mozart’s visit to the Sistine chapel) with new ones drawn from such disparate sources as the work of neurologist Oliver Sacks, the Radiolab podcast, and the award-winning film Alive Inside. We’ll tell you about Blind Tom Wiggins (the slave pianist who had a memorized repertoire of 6,000 pieces) and share tales of Alzheimer patients who can mysteriously remember music in full detail even as the rest of their memory is in decline.
Sharang Sharma, guest conductor
Lucas Harris, narrator
Luke Welch, piano
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Where is it happening?
Church of the Redeemer Anglican Church, 162 Bloor Street West,Toronto, Ontario, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
