Music For Maternity

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Joanna Bereaud rolled her cart down the hospital hallway. A patient was waiting for her treatment — delivered by maraca and drum. Bereaud, a music therapist at Boston Children’s Hospital, carries a guitar on her back and more instruments in her cart: xylophones, an ocean drum, a rain stick, metal chimes, a kid-sized tambourine. Read more here…

Inside a snug, spartan room at the Harold Washington Library Center, Shimon Marcucci had fine-tuned what probably amounted to several albums’ worth of music before I’d ever played a note there. For four years, the middle-aged bureaucrat turned amateur composer had spent his lunch break on the eighth floor of Chicago’s mammoth central library, soprano saxophone in tow. Standing in one of the six first-come, first-served rehearsal rooms—each outfitted with an upright piano and available for an hour at a time to anyone with a library card—Marcucci had been dreaming up and polishing a range of world-jazz fusion material that would eventually become a self-released record. Read more here…

Many parents of ADHD children may still opt for physician’s prescription, combined with traditional psychotherapy (such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). However, child psychologists today are widely recommending music therapy which complements psychotherapy or as a part of a multi-modal ADHD treatment. Music influences mood and reduces restlessness and impulsiveness. Music also soothes anxiety and stress in the body, and children with ADHD often feel anxious and stressed. Read more here…

The music of Mozart and Strauss is able to lower blood lipid concentrations and the heart rate. This is the result of a study of the effect of different musical genres on the cardiovascular system, which Hans-Joachim Trappe und Gabriele Volt of Ruhr University Bochum present in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. Read more here…

Nazareth and Sacred Heart Homes are proud to introduce the SingFit Prime music therapy program in the Louisville area. Read more here…

A fundraiser that includes appetizers and a group mediumship with a psychic will help raise money for the Music Therapy Impact fund. The nonprofit group provides music therapy for patients who receive hospice and palliative care at the end of their life. Read more here…

MEMBERS of the Bromsgrove branch of Rock Choir, and their families, have taken part in a fun music quiz to help raise money for a music therapy charity. The quiz was organised by choir leader Christa Hugo, and saw members of the Rock Choir go head to head against one another at the Court Leet pub in Bromsgrove, answering questions in rounds including ‘guess the album cover’ and ‘spot the intro’, as well as taking part in a raffle and a cake sale. Read more here…

A fundraiser that includes appetizers and a group mediumship with a psychic will help raise money for the Music Therapy Impact fund. The nonprofit group provides music therapy for patients who receive hospice and palliative care at the end of their life. Read more here…

There is one room in the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital oncology ward where there are no doctors, no beds and no mention of cancer. Instead, every Wednesday morning, it is full of seriously ill children who clap their hands, sing and laugh. Read more here…

Children are one of our most vulnerable populations, and they’re also our future. It’s critical that we do everything we can to raise strong, confident, considerate kids. However, that’s often easier said than done, especially when the children come from households where there’s been serious abuse and neglect. Read more here…