Think Of Your Favorite Song. Got It? Here's Why It's Stuck With You
This show originally aired April 4, 2019.
Music and the human brain. A neuroscientist and opera singer guides us through the science of how and why music moves us.
Guest
Indre Viskontas, author of “How Music Can Make You Better.” Professor of sciences and humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco.
Creative Director of Pasadena Opera and director of the chamber music group Vocallective.
Host of the podcasts “Cadence,” on music and the mind, and “Inquiring Minds,” on the place where science and society collide. (@indrevis)
Sounds From The Show
How does your brain turn music into sound?
How music can heal our minds and bodies?
How can music impact society?
On Point, On Key: The Songs That Have Stuck With Us Through The Years
Everyone’s got those couple of songs that send chills down their back when the opening notes are sung or strummed.
On Point‘s production staff shared their favorites.
Stefano Kotsonis, On Point producer
Peter, Paul & Mary When I was an 8- or 9-year-old kid in New Jersey, my Greek father decided to visit family and friends for the first time since he’d emigrated to the U.S. for college. He took me with him. My very first time walking into an airplane, sitting down, buckling up and feeling the amazing surge at takeoff.
