Oliver Sacks’ ‘Musicophilia’: Music is Cure and Curse [SF Chronicle]
[San Francisco Chronicle; November 2, 2007]
Who is the most important person in your local hospital? Seek – or, rather, listen – and ye shall find, according to Oliver Sacks.
Leading a documentary crew through his Bronx psychiatric hospital posting in 1973, as the distinguished psychiatrist-author recalls in his new study, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” the film’s director declared, “Can I meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here.”
Sacks…
