Hearing Music For the First Time, from Jeff Watson

2012-09-11 · Jeff Watson
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![ ](http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/3/25/13/the-face-of-a-boy-hearing-for-the-first-time-20780-1238001482-30.jpg "a boy hearing for the first time

")Here's [a magnificent article](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/what-its-like-for-a-deaf-person-to-hear-music-for-the-first-time/260890/) about a 23 year old who was profoundly deaf, being able through the advances of free market technology, to hear music, to decipher music, for the first time. What playlist of 10-20 songs, groups, orchestras, symphonies, etc would you recommend to a 25 year old who's never listened to music? In fact, what would you recommend for the very first song a person coming out of the shroud of deafness should listen to?