Music For Maternity

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Music therapist Claire Littlejohn gathers the sleeping baby girl from her incubator in Trident Medical Center’s Level II nursery, and they settle into a rocker. Iris Monroe Boyer arrived six weeks earlier than expected, and at nine days old, she weighs four pounds, two ounces. To help Iris adjust to stimulation, Littlejohn sings her a lullaby. Read more here…

Burning Man can be overwhelming in general, but especially if you don’t particularly care for techno music. Fear not, though: if you find yourself in Black Rock City and are not into raving to pounding EDM, there are still countless things to do. Read more here…

LOWELL — Benjamin Scheuer’s autobiographical show “The Lion” lives somewhere in between the forms of musical, cabaret performance, and song cycle. So it delivers more entertainment than a simple album of his songs, less psychological insight than one might hope for upon a trip to the theater, but all the feel-good triumph of a sentimental musical. Read more here…

A South Florida senator Tuesday filed a proposal that calls for state regulation and licensure of music therapists. The bill, filed by state Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, says “the practice of music therapy should be subject to regulation to ensure the highest degree of professional conduct and to guarantee the availability of music therapy services provided by qualified professionals. This … is intended to protect the public from unqualified music therapists.” Read more here…

Florida Hospital Orlando music therapist Antonio Milland strummed his guitar and sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” while stroke patient Tyson Brandt grasped a mallet with two hands and tapped a paddle drum. “Take a big breath in,” Milland said as Brandt, 48, smiled and leaned forward in his wheelchair toward the drum. Read more here…

A South Florida senator Tuesday filed a proposal that calls for state regulation and licensure of music therapists. The bill, filed by state Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, says “the practice of music therapy should be subject to regulation to ensure the highest degree of professional conduct and to guarantee the availability of music therapy services provided by qualified professionals. This … is intended to protect the public from unqualified music therapists.” Read more here…

Some say the only time we take a deep breath is right when we are born — after that, life and its stresses take over and we never breathe that deeply again. Read more here…

Gary Clark Jr. unleashed his guitar fury on “the Tonight Show” with a blistering performance of “The Healing” the lead track from his new album “The Story of Sonny Boy Slim” last night. I asked Clark about the emotional push behind the song when we sat down before his incredible “Austin City Limits” taping last week. Read more here…

If you were visiting a loved one in the hospital, or were in the hospital yourself, you almost certainly wouldn’t expect to hear the sounds of a violin echoing through the halls just outside the door of your patient room. But, every now and then, patients and families at Blount Memorial Hospital hear just that — the strings of a violin playing just for them. Read more here…

Hospitals have a free and powerful tool that they could use more often to help reduce the pain that surgery patients experience: music. Scores of studies over the years have looked at the power of music to ease this kind of pain; an analysis published Wednesday in The Lancet that pulls all those findings together builds a strong case. Read more here…