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Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association will present a new music therapy program provided by music therapist Lori Sunshine.In this type of therapy, a clinically trained professional music therapist uses music therapy to address patients’ and their families’ physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual and social needs. Read more here…

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – Walk down the halls of NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Center and you’ll hear Johanna Benthal. The 18-year-old has been in and out of the hospital her whole life, but that doesn’t hold her back.
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DEMENTIA sufferers and their carers in Teesdale are being invited to take part in a free music therapy this week in Barnard Castle. The Alzheimer’s Society Singing for the Brain session will be held at the Methodist Church on Friday, February 27, from 10am to noon. Read more here…

After a 2002 car accident left Jackson native Robert Henne suffering disability from head and back injuries, he found himself getting treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, thanks to his wife’s career in the Air Force. Read more here…

Since Gabby Giffords belted out “Maybe” from Broadway’s Annie in a Facebook video that went viral last week, the former congresswoman wants fellow brain-injury patients to know that music has helped her to recover. The video of Giffords and her former music therapist at Houston’s TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation and Research Hospital wasn’t her first stroll through the classic show’s song book, however. Read more here…

The healing power of music is a common theme for songwriters and reunited father and son Warren and Addison Marshall are a great example of it. The Ulverstone piano duo were separated for seven years before Warren overcame personal struggles including alcoholism to re-connect with his son. Read more here…

Plays about mad kings are always popular. After Alan Bennett’s portrait of George III, we now have Claire van Kampen’s fascinating study of the healing impact of music on Spain’s French-born Philippe V. With Mark Rylance as the king, the evening is guaranteed success, but what it really proves is how ideally suited this intimate space is to the mix of drama and music. Read more here…

Live piano music, once the center of every living room, has largely fallen by the wayside outside of church services and the occasional school musical. Through the Miracles of Music series at Sanford Health, piano music is making a comeback. Read more here…

A TRAINED music therapist has begun working in dementia care homes across Salisbury delivering creative music therapy sessions for residents. Arash Bazrafshan, who has a BA degree in Music and an MSc in Music Therapy, relocated to south Wiltshire after completing his masters at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Read more here…

Music therapist Kathleen Brown spends two afternoons a week pushing around a cart of instruments to share with the patients at Baylor Scott & White Cancer Center. But her efforts could be cut short if the Scott & White Healthcare Foundation, the fundraising arm of the hospital, doesn’t successfully raise $20,000 by June to continue the program.
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