2. Describe Oliver Sack's anecdote regarding Tony Cicoria. What does his story suggest about music and the brain? Cite excerpts to support your respon

Tony Cicoria was a former college football player who became and graduated as an orthopedic surgeon. Tony was at a family gathering in 1994, and he went outside to call his mother on a payphone. Unfortunately a flash of lightning came through the phone and hit him in the face. They thought he went into cardiac arrest. He had slight memory issues he forgot the names of surgical procedures that he would perform. He had burns to his face and his left foot. When life returned to normal Tony had a desire to listen to piano music, Classical piano music by Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Chopin. The doctors believed he was having musically hallucinations. This was very rare they didn’t understand why all of a sudden he liked this type of music when he never did before. He thought the only reason why he survived was because he was destined to be musically inclined. Tony would stay up all night and play the piano and he would wake up at four in the morning to play the piano until he had to go to work. When Tony was younger he had no interest in playing the piano when he use to take piano lessons. Also Cicoria became very spiritual and he would read about every book he could find on the near death experiences having to do with getting hit by lightning. Tony had a patient Salimah M. She was a research chemist, and had a surgery done to her and she also became very interested in music just like Tony. She would listen to classical music on the radio. Even though Salimah had never liked music before and found it very irritating, people would find her listening to music in her lab as loud as it could turn up. In the 70’s David bear suggested that a sensory-limbic hyper connection might be the basis for the emergence of the unexpected artistic, sexual, mystical or religious feeling that sometimes occur in people with temporal lobe epilepsy. The other day I was watching a CSI show and I found it very ironic. The show was about a guy on Rascal Flatts a country band, and he experienced and electric shock to his face. When he went to the hospital he heard the music that he wrote for Rascal Flatts and told them to shut it off because he hated country music. This is kind of like Tony because he never liked music and now he does, but the guy from Rascal Flatts wrote country music and performed country music and then he hated it.