You stimulate it it produces a symphony.

But it's not just a symphony of perception.

It's a symphony of your universe, your reality.

You may be born lucky, where you know how to master your neocortical column, and you can play a fantastic symphony.

Two days ago in this Hall, we paid that tribute through the wonderful music of the Leningrad Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich.

60, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in the summer of 1806.

It is a symphony often not a very harmonious one of small steps that you hope will lead to something greater.

They are highly reactive, and they are super plastic, and so the autists are probably capable of building and learning a symphony which is unthinkable for us.

92, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1811 and 1812, while improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice.

And what we're learning now is that you can't listen to a five billion year long symphony, get to today and say, Stop! We want tomorrow's note to be the same as it was today.

This meant not only an artistic triumph, but also a profound emotional sympathy between the public of the most advanced nations of the world and the musical youth of Latin America, as seen in Venezuela, giving these audiences a message of music, vitality, energy, enthusiasm and strength.

And we're all acutely aware what's it going to mean in the future when we ask someone to pay a hundred dollars for a symphony, opera or ballet ticket, when that cultural consumer is used to downloading on the internet 24 hours a day for 99 cents a song or for free?