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ARCHIYE, Haiti (PIX11) – This small storage space in lower Manhattan holds more than just old broken instrument. It’s filled with a vision Bennett Rathbun had to make a difference in Haiti. “A violin that’s missing some strings or a saxophone that needs a tune up,” Rathbun said. So four years ago, he left his management consultant job here in New York City to pursue an unexpected opportunity. Read more here…

Top stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: We continue our coverage of the Texas Legislative Session; the director of Preservation Dallas says he’s not sure what’s up next for Lakewood Theatre; Lauren Silverman looks at how music helps terminally ill patients.  Read more here…

Ever wonder how sound and music affects your central nervous system? Turns out it’s similar to how it affects dogs. By using resonance, entertainment and pattern identification, both humans and dogs can charge up or calm their central nervous systems. Read more here…

We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life. Read more here…

LEE COUNTY, FL – The Golisano Children’s Hospital is turning some of it’s sick patients into rock stars — transforming their hospital rooms into a virtual fantasy. The hospital is eight-year-old Michael Gleisle’s second home.  Since the day he was born, Michael has spent half of his life in the hospital.  His asthma is so severe, it could kill him.  Read more here…

Dr. Rodney Brunson took over his daughter’s piano lessons a few years ago when she decided she’d rather play the saxophone. At first, Brunson, 59, just wanted to learn to play a few songs. But after a few lessons, he decided he actually wanted to learn how to play, including musical theory and how to read music. Read more here…

“This isn’t something we can just give a final ‘ta-da’ and it’s done,” Sherry Bube, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College music therapy graduate, said while presenting her senior grant-funded project at the 2014 Ball Venture Fund Colloquium. Although Bube graduated this past spring, she has continued to work diligently on the final stages of BEAT! — Bring Everyone Around the Table — her project to design and create an electronic drum table for use in therapeutic settings. Read more here…

For families with emotional neglect issues, music therapy can improve parent-child communication and stress levels, according to a study from Denmark. A chance to be heard In a small trial, music therapy had a positive effect on both verbal and nonverbal communication between emotionally neglected children and their parents. Parents participating in music therapy also perceived their children as less stressful. Read more here…

(Reuters Health) – For families with emotional neglect issues, music therapy can improve parent-child communication and stress levels, according to a study from Denmark. Read more here…

The study led by pediatrics at Northwestern Medicine has found music and audio books as a strategy to control post-surgical pain because medication like opioid analgesics that are given to kids after surgery causes breathing problems in them, and it makes the care takes to control the dose, and hence children’s pain is not well controlled. Read more here…