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Simon came down to visit the Nordoff Robbins Andrew Lloyd Webber Music Therapy unit and the BRIT School ahead of receiving his award at the 24th Music Industry Trusts Award on Monday 2 November in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the music and entertainment industry and many charitable causes. Read more here…

The Sam Houston State School of Music is hosting a songwriter’s showcase featuring guest artist Monique Van Bruggen next Monday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the James and Nancy Gaertner Preforming Arts Center Recital Hall. Read more here…

When a 9-millimeter bullet ripped through U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s skull and tore across the left side of her brain, it caused extensive damage in the part that controls language. After the attempted assassination, she lost her ability to speak. Read more here…

The Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to install a centralised music system at the state-run MY hospital to play therapeutic music for patients has not gone down well with the doctors at the medical facility. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES — Can music really soothe the savage beast? A veterinarian in North Canton, Ohio, thinks so. Dr. Pamela Fisher has put music in more than 1,100 animal shelters, saying that it calms dogs and cats, and even cuts down on barking. Read more here…

Children are beautiful; they are cheerful, noble and filled with happiness, but they also jump, shout, cry, kick and when more than 30 of them are together, the situation is twice as complicated. That is the scene that Guanacaste’s public school teachers have to face day after day; although they have the responsibility to do so, it usuallyproduces stress and tension. Read more here…

Dementia experts are calling for music therapy to be available on prescription for people with dementia. They want clinicians to use music to reawaken and stimulate the brain and focus less on pharmalogical interventions. Read more here…

Amanda Rosado is a music therapist with the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Towson. As an empathetic, compassionate and open-minded listener with a long history and interest in playing instruments and singing, Rosado uses the soothing, creative expressiveness of music to help adolescent females at Sheppard Pratt discover the healing and therapeutic effects music can have on the mind, body and soul. Read more here…

Michael Rohrbacher wheeled a suitcase filled with musical instruments into the memory care center at Terraces at Bonita Springs. There were drums and hand chimes; maracas and shakers shaped like bananas, apples and lemons. For the next 30 minutes, Rohrbacher and two Florida Gulf Coast University students played music for, and with, about a dozen of the center’s residents. Read more here…

A Seventh-day Adventist music therapist is using skills learned in Pathfinders and church to reach autistic children in Brazil. Ana Carolina Steinkopf, who at 24 is barely out of Pathfinders herself, has created a musical performance called “Uma Sinfonia Diferente” (A Different Kind of Symphony) that regularly brings together 21 children and their families, a psychologist and 21 psychology students, a camera crew, a photography crew, a band with seven musicians, and a production team. Read more here…