Henny:

>What fascinates me of music is the way it touches us. And it's something
>I don't understand.

There's no doubt that music has the power to move us in strange ways
and it's not only homo sapiens that are affected.  The work of Dorothy
Retallack found that plants responded to different genres of music.
Classical music in general, J.S.  Bach in particular, and Ravi Shankar made
the plants grow fast and healthily.  They leaned toward the speakers almost
' as if to embrace them'.  Ms. Retallack's favourite composer Debussy had
hardly any effect either way.  The plants that 'listened' to rock music
shriveled and died.  Jazz was well received but their favourites were
Indian and Western classical music.

Tony de Freitas
Trinidad, W.I.
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