Music did a number on me

Published Aug. 23, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
Experts say that musical training can have a profound effect on young minds. But 50 years after violin lessons and a disaster with the Chicago Symphony, the writer is singing a different tune...

...In a recent interview in Harper's Magazine, Dr. Oliver Sacks, the respected Columbia University neurologist, argued that intensive musical training had a profound effect on young brains. He noted a study that showed children with a single year of violin training demonstrated striking positive change in their left hemispheres.

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