2025-01-26
34 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm head of Programming Conor Boyle.
Today's episode is part one of our recent live event in London's Smith Square hall with Daniel Levitin.
He's a neuroscientist, musician and author of the new book Music as How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power.
He was joined in conversation by journalist and broadcaster Riddle Asha and music was played by violinist Anna Mitchell.
If you're an Intelligence Squared plus subscriber, you can get access to the full conversation right now.
Now, without further ado, let's go to the episode.
Good evening, everybody.
Welcome to this Intelligence Squared event.
I'm Rithala Shah.
Five nights a week I present Calm Classics on Classic fm.
And the whole premise of the show is that classical music should help you relax at the end of the day.
And judging by the messages I get and by the audience figures, it seems to be quite successful.
Well, I'm delighted then to introduce tonight's speaker who takes our understanding of the power of music much, much further than that with a rigorous and really scientific approach.
Daniel Leverton is the author of Music as How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power.
And Daniel knows a thing or two about how our brains work.
He's a neuroscientist and a cognitive psychologist and is professor emeritus at McGill University in the US and he's written a number of best selling books, including the this is your Brain on Music, the World in Six Songs and of course, Music as Medicine, which we'll be talking about tonight.
And to bring some of Daniel's ideas and research to life, I'm delighted that we're also going to hear from Anna Mitchell.
Anna's a violinist for Sinfonious Smith Square and she's also played with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the RTE Concert Orchestra.
So it is going to be a fabulous evening.