When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d

Last Sunday’s New York Times carried Clive Thompson’s interesting article on the neuroscience of music perception: “Music of the hemispheres.” I’ve found myself thinking about the opening paragraphs all week:

“Listen to this,” Daniel Levitin said.

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