Music For Maternity

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Muic can certainly affect our mood, but can it affect our health? The answer to this question could be yes, according to researchers who have discovered that repeated musical phrases can affect the heart rate, raising the possibility that it could be used as a treatment for heart conditions. Peter Sleight, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK, has presented the findings of over 20 years of research at the British Cardiology Society Conference in Manchester. Read more here…

For Rodrigo Amarante, music is the unity that binds our collective soul. On Friday, May 29, KCSB and The Goodland hotel are inviting all to come together in an intimate poolside student appreciation event, where the Brazilian-born multi-instrumentalist will explore themes of self and space through his beautiful acoustic numbers. I spoke with Amarante over the phone as he sat in traffic, where he reflected on the function of art, his roots, and coming together. Read more here…

The beeps of the heart-rate monitors. The tones of a ventilator as it helps a patient breathe. Hushed conversations about care. The calls over the public address system. In the intensive-care unit, it’s all a constant reminder those in here are the sickest of the sick. Read more here…

Now Easter Seals in Salem is using music to help small children overcome some big obstacles. Easter Seals just started a music therapy group for kids between 18 months and three years old. The class is designed for children with developmental disabilities, but children without disabilities are welcome, too. It has seven kids now, but there’s room for at least five more. Read more here…

We only have to think back to the last time a piece of music gave us the chills or made us cry to realize how powerful music can be. For years, music therapists have been harnessing that power to help an array of patients, from playing clapping songs to cheer up sick kids in hospital, using drums to break through communication walls in those with autism, or playing old favourites to seniors in nursing homes. Read more here…

(WBIR) – The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up its season this week with a free concert Thursday evening in Maryville. One program, however, is bringing music to people who can’t make it out to concerts. Read more here…

As demonstrations in Baltimore over the weekend to protest the death of Freddie Gray took on a celebratory tone, the entire cast of the Bob Marley musical that is scheduled to open this week in that city threw a free concert there on Saturday afternoon at Penn and North, right in the middle of the demonstrations, and close by the spot where Gray was arrested. Read more here…

QUEEN’S ROAD:Latika (11) suffers from Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) under the autism spectrum. When she was younger, she faced great difficulty in communication. Her parents signed her up for music therapy when she was eight. Three years on, Latika is showing progress. “We didn’t know she was inclined towards classical music until we started music therapy. Read more here…

KATHMANDU, June 3 (Xinhua) — It’s been three days since the resumption of educational institutions in the quake-stricken Himalayan nation,but the children are yet to break free from the shackles of fear following the massive, life-altering disaster, with its lethal and frequent subsequent aftershocks. Read more here…

A deep voice crooning Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” faintly carried across a sea of American flags and marble gravestones at Fort Logan National Cemetery on Monday morning. As veterans, active servicemen and women, and family and friends of fallen members of the country’s armed forces gathered for the annual Memorial Day ceremony, Alan Rael stood over the gravestone of his mother and father, Alfonso and Theresa Rael, and serenaded them with his guitar.  Read more here…