Music For Maternity

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Sweetest music is the kind that can bring joy to children who need it the most. Huntington, the founder of independently owned and operated True Joy Acoustics of Liberty Twp., this week will donate 25 premium Flea-brand ukuleles to the music therapy program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Read more here…

Curt and Theresa Witeby— no strangers to the Simi Valley Hospital ER and intensive care unit—are now helping patients and their families heal through the “universal language of mankind.” Beginning in mid-December 2006, the Simi Valley couple, ages 61 and 60 respectively, and their three adult children spent 15 days in the emergency ward with Theresa’s father, John Finnegan, after he broke his neck in a serious car accident. Read more here…

Seven-year-old Krish Vyas of Tempe giggles and claps his hands after he strums a guitar. He marches, dances and roars to a song about dinosaurs. He beats drums in time to familiar songs, such as “This Old Man” or “Down by the Bay.” Read more here…

KOCHI: Clad in the customary white cloak, a priest rendered songs ranging from soothing Christian devotional to weighty Carnatic to peppy Malayalam film numbers at Arts and Medicine programme organised at the Ernakulam General Hospital by Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF). Read more here…

For as long as I can remember, my family members have had a tradition of coming to Thanksgiving dinner prepared with a thought, observation, or piece of artwork that illuminates their gratitude. Read more here…

For people with Alzheimer’s disease, art and music therapy can provide outlets for communication and connections with the past, even after memories and speaking ability are diminished. Read more here…

WEST JACKSON, Tenn. – For ages mothers have sung to their babies to quite their cries and lull them to sleep. That maternal instinct is proving more than just calming. Music therapists say research shows music combined with touch can heal. Read more here…

Every Wednesday morning, wounded warriors gather at the San Antonio Military Medical Center for therapy that rocks. Warrior Cry Music Project, an organization based in San Antonio, provides free musical instruments and lessons to injured soldiers around the country to help them through the healing process. Read more here…

The scene was a field of tall, poppy-wearing luminaries, nodding in polite conversation to Prince Charles as Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra came to the Royal Festival Hall in London on Monday night for a concert that is one of the highlights of its tour of the United Kingdom. Read more here…

Curt and Theresa Witeby— no strangers to the Simi Valley Hospital ER and intensive care unit—are now helping patients and their families heal through the “universal language of mankind.” Read more here…