Is the old adage true that we remember 10% of what we read but 90% of what we sing?
This Kaffeemusik will survey the complex relationship between music and memory by discussing, among other things, the role of memory in Renaissance polyphony, the legend of Wolfgang Mozart’s visit to the Sistine chapel, research by neuroscientists such as Oliver Sacks, and modern theories such as the “Mozart effect”. Music by Allegri, Lassus, Purcell, and others, plus the premiere of David Barber’s Remember Not.
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