By Oliver Sacks. 381 pp. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. $26. ISBN 978-1-4000-4081-0.
When I was an infant, my father set up a little record playernear my crib. He was a man of few words, and his love of musicwas out of proportion to everything else about him. His ambitionshad been curtailed by the Great Depression, and he wanted tomake certain that I had a chance at the career he had been denied.I became a pianist, composer, and teacher, and when I heardthe story about the record player as an adult, it seemed toaccount for why I had always thought of music as being somehowmore . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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