Musicophilia Classics and the eternal human quest

and the eternal human quest for meaning

as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes

” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart

and the arrival of the railroads

Musicophilia Classics and the eternal human questIn Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring,