Bed Midler and Susan Rogers

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Larger productions are more likely to attract a lot of people who don't pay a lot of attention to music. Sometimes you do have to make a big gesture an ornate gesture in order to get heard so good for bed midler it worked she got a huge hitGood for jeff in that he's able to express the genesis of the feeling that gave rise to those chord changes and that melody.

In this special episode, Susan Rogers, a record producer turned cognitive neuroscientist, and Daniel Levitin, author of “This Is Your Brain on Music,” get together to discuss what music has meant in their lives, debate what separates a great artist from a generic one, and share some of their favorite tunes.

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Susan’s new book, “This Is What It Sounds Like,” was chosen by our curators — Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — as one of the eight best works of nonfiction published last year. She recently made a beautiful video e-course about the book, which you can experience by downloading the Next Big Idea app.