The Remembrance of Themes Past: Leitmotif and Musical Memory
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Thomas Grey talks about episodic memory loss and the representation of memory in the highly stylized, fictional context of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. (March 5, 2011)
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Trio Voce performs Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 1, the U.S. premier of Memory Slips, by Stanford composer/professor/music teacher Jonathan Berger, and Beethoven Piano Trio No. 5 in D major "Ghost," Op. 70, No. 1. (March 4, 2011)
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Nina Kraus talks about how musical experience strengthens the auditory-neural mechanisms that underlie everyday auditory skills. (March 5, 2011)
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