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NASHVILLE, Tenn (AP) – Belmont officials believe the school is uniquely situated to offer the program because of Nashville’s status as a hub for the health care and music industries. Music therapy integrates music into a patient’s overall treatment and recovery program. The therapy is offered to everyone from newborns in the intensive care unit to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy – in addition to those for whom music could reduce the stress of being sick. Read more here…

The song is called, simply, Sarah Elizabeth. Musician Chris Lenz wrote and recorded it for his wife. The song is a gift that might just mean as much to him as it will to her when he surprises her with it on his next home visit. Read more here…

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame keyboardist Bernie Worrell is no stranger to Long Branch. After all, he was born in the city. The last time he came through town in 2012, he was given the key to the city by Long Branch mayor Adam Schneider during a performance at the Brighton Bar. Read more here…

MUSIC THERAPIST CAROL Wiedemann spends much of her time at the B.C. Children’s Hospital working with patients in the intensive-care unit and the burn program. Sometimes, she’ll have a young patient play the xylophone to keep them calm during an I.V. insertion. For one four-year-old boy, handing him a drum while she played guitar helped to coax him out of his stroller and overcome his fear. Read more here…

Singing familiar songs may encourage conversation among people with Alzheimer’s disease, a small study shows. Six people with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer’s participated in group music therapy sessions twice a week for one month. The participants were between the ages of 65 and 83. Four were born in Israel; two immigrated to Israel in their early teens. Read more here…

Music therapists have long said that music therapy could be used to help people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia reconnect with their memories and become more social. Recently, a number of studies have been conducted that strengthen the therapy’s potential as an Alzheimer’s care technique. In a small new study published in the Journal of Music Therapy, researchers showed that music could encourage seniors with dementia to be more communicative and engage with the songs they were hearing. Read more here…

Hundreds of people will gather to hear Sheffield soprano Deboroah Norman sing in aid of Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. Catherine Scott meets her. Read more here…

Music can make you happy, help mend a broken heart or even make you want to dance. But a Pasadena woman uses music for another purpose — to help children with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Read more here…

PEORIA — Of all the careers Katie Fitch could have chosen, the 24-year-old Peorian was drawn to music therapy. Fitch used her voice, her guitar, some space and some serious education to start introducing music therapy to the Peoria area. Using an empty office in her mother’s church — First Christian Church of Peoria — as a base of operations, Fitch has given musical therapy sessions to about 30 Peoria area people. Read more here…

For several centuries, music and therapy have been closely linked in human history. In earlier times, music’s supernatural powers were attributed to the warding off of evil spirits, absolving of sins and the placating of the gods. By 1789, the first article on Music Therapy appeared and since then, music progressively gained recognition for its therapeutic value. Today, Music Therapy is known for a range of observable health benefits, including but not limited to developing communication skills, helping decrease pain and anxiety, and reducing of stress. Moreover, Music Therapy encourages creativity and happiness. Read more here…