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Capture and edit photos, put together nature puzzles, and relax to the sound of music with today’s collection of apps and games. All app prices are subject to change at any time and without notice regardless of stated free duration. Price changes are solely under the control of the developers. Read more here…

A board-certified music therapist is using a brand new drum technology called Comfort Sound Technology to help improve the quality of life of patients and their families at a children’s hospital and private practice in Minnesota. Read more here…

A DERBY harpist hopes her music can “reach” a young man who has been in a coma for more than eight weeks. Edd Stafford, 22, a tree surgeon from Derby, has not regained consciousness since being seriously injured in a car crash near Kedleston Hall on October 5. Read more here…

On Wednesday, in the auditorium hall of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, classical music fans will be waiting for the performance of acclaimed Finish soprano Riikka Hakola. This will be Hakola’s first ever performance in the Mediterranean city and second in Egypt following her performance with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ahmed El-Saedi, in an evening that included the Luonnotar, Op 70, a tone-poem for soprano and orchestra by Jean Sibelius, the world acknowledged Finnish composer of the early 20th century. The concert took place at the Cairo Opera House on Saturday, 5 December. Read more here…

Music can be a form of therapy for people who are stressed and depressed. While it has already been proven that music can soothe the minds of ordinary people, a new study found out that music can improve the heart conditions of terminally ill patients, too. Read more here…

Music therapy has been used for over 30 years to successfully ease the symptoms and suffering for patients receiving palliative care, improving the quality of life across all ages and a variety of illnesses. However, few high quality evidence-based studies have existed to support music therapy. A recent trial by a team of researchers from Heidelberg University aims to provide solid evidence on the practice’s impact. Read more here…

For Seal, songwriting is like therapy. And since splitting from Heidi Klum in 2012, he’s been immersed. “It’s really cathartic,” he said. “When people have something that’s ailing them or something that’s weighing on them and they go and see a therapist or a shrink … essentially what they’re trying to do is off-load. They’re trying to share the load. As a songwriter … you can articulate those emotions, or you can take that which is within and get it out.” Read more here…

This was one of the last unpublished articles of the veteran editor Rex de Silva who passed away on November 16. When he began journalism in the 1960s Rex began with pop music. Later he evolved into the higher dimensions of music therapy, especially for those who are lonely and the elderly “If music be the food of Life, play on” is what William Shakespeare wrote while reflecting on his creative thoughts about music’s essential need for humankind. The sound of music is as old as the universe itself. It will continue to be with us forever as it helps fine tune our harmony of life. Read more here…

Music therapy can enhance terminally ill patients’ wellbeing and relaxation. This treatment has been known since the 1970s, but there is little scientific research on the subject. A recent randomized controlled trial by Marco Warth et al. in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2015; 112: 788-94) analyzes the effect of music therapy on palliative care patients. Read more here…

Music therapy has been used for over 30 years to successfully ease the symptoms and suffering for patients receiving palliative care, improving the quality of life across all ages and a variety of illnesses. However, few high quality evidence-based studies have existed to support music therapy. A recent trial by a team of researchers from Heidelberg University aims to provide solid evidence on the practice’s impact. Read more here…