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Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett had planned to film Dan Cohen, a social worker and founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, for a single day. Cohen had wanted to document his nascent program for elders with dementia who were springing back to life at a Brooklyn nursing home. Rossato-Bennett found himself crafting a story of music and memory around Cohen’s objective to bring personalized music to every individual in nursing homes throughout America. He filmed Cohen for three years. Read more here…

Music Therapist Emily Druce (right) with group members and Lisa Beaumont and Mina Gay of the Yorkshire Building Society with instruments they have provided for the group at Womenspace, Lord Street, Huddersfield. Read more here…

San Leandro, Calif. — Parama Poojya Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swamiji of Mysore, India, will present a unique healing meditation and music concert at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles July 13. “With decades of extensive research in the field of healing music, Sri Swamiji employs the use of ancient Indian sciences such as astrology, ayurveda and crystal therapy, incorporating them into a holistic tool that he offers as ‘Music for Meditation and Healing,’” reads a statement on his Web site, Yogatunes.org. Read more here…

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. Marvin Sherzer didn’t touch the piano keys for more than four decades. Today, the 67-year-old certified music practitioner provides soothing sounds to patients recovering at Florida Hospital Oceanside after taking a 46-year hiatus from the instrument. Therapeutic music is played at the patient’s bedside to relieve pain and anxiety. Read more here…

Children up to age five and their parents are invited to participate in a free music class at the United Methodist Church of Monroe on July 9. Connecticut Music Therapy Services, LLC will be offering a demonstration class from the award-winning early childhood music program, Sprouting Melodies. These music classes help children develop important social, physical and emotional skills by using a combination of instrument playing, movement and music. Read more here…

Several patients at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital received a soothing musical treat Tuesday morning. Members of the South Carolina Philharmonic performed a small concert for children and their families as part of the hospital’s music therapy program. Read more here…

PORTSMOUTH — If you happen to be passing through the lobby or patient floors of Portsmouth Regional Hospital on a Wednesday, you may catch the strains of a harp being played by hospital volunteer Mary Paul. Paul, a Greenland resident, has been bringing her harp to the hospital for almost four years to soothe patients and their families and it also brightens the day of employees lucky enough to have her nearby. Read more here…

A grant of £73,852 has been awarded to a Northamptonshire charity which provides music therapy for seriously ill children by BBC Children in Need. Read more here…

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music”, said George Elliot. Music moves us to love, joy, pride, catharsis and patriotism. But what of the health benefits of music therapy?. Read more here…

Today, Matthews sees improvements like this every day at the “movement therapy” center she opened in April 2012 in Pana. Matthews and Connor’s mother, Amanda Taylor, believe movement therapy — a music and movement sensory integration strategy connecting the left and right sides of the brain — has made all the difference for Connor, now 10.  Read more here…