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On Friday, January 4, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks will speak on music, healing and the brain. A book-signing of his latest publication, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, will also take place.
Dubbed "the poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Dr. Sacks is revered as one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time. His books are assigned reading in universities worldwide, in subjects as diverse as medicine, writing, psychology, bioethics, religion, and music.
Best-selling books include Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars.
Dr. Sacks, a professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, was recently appointed the first "Columbia Artist." He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet (from Rockefeller University) and grants from the Guggenheim and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundations.
Don Michael Randel, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will speak following CMA's annual membership meeting on Friday January 4. A music historian and a musicologist specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France, he has served as president of the University of Chicago (2000-2006) and has been both provost and dean of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.
Randel has written on such varied topics as Arab music theory, Latin American popular music, and 15th-century French poetry. He has served as editor of the Journal of the American Musicology Society and has edited numerous music reference works, most recently The Harvard Dictionary of Music (4th ed.).
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