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inside carlos kalmar’s brain

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Carlos Kalmar – Photo: Oregon Symphony

In case you missed it, the Oregonian ran a story about our music director Carlos Kalmar taking part in a brain study at OHSU.  It involved Kalmar being put into an MRI machine, then listening to a movement of Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony (which he was rehearsing that week) while being scanned, then being asked to imagine the music while being scanned.  The results (unsurprisingly to musicians) were very similar.

Read more here.