Posts Tagged ‘music’
CHLA’s Music Therapy Program Helps Family Cope With Tragedy

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Camacho family traveled to Los Angeles from Guam for what they hoped would be a medical miracle.Steven Jr., 11, had a rare blood cancer and was depending on a bone marrow transplant from his 16-year-old sister, Alyssa, who tested as a perfect match. Read more here…
A healing gift of music

For young musician hopefuls such as Lee Hyung-jin and Lee Hyun-soo, not only time but also music has helped them overcome their personal difficulties and allow their scars to heal as they discovered their gifts. Read more here…
Tidewater arts group promotes healing power of music in Newport News
As a musician in residence at the Shands Arts in Medicine program in Florida, Cathy DeWitt has played harp, piano and guitar, and sung bedside for patients for 20 years.”Music is especially useful where verbal communication is limited — with autism, aphasia or Alzheimer’s,” she said. Read more here…
Breaking Barriers with Musical Healing: Mark Weingarten.

Have violin, will travel: That was Mark Weingarten’s mantra as he trekked two hours by bus each way from his yeshiva in Yavne to Jerusalem to play music at Hadassah Hospital. “I figured I would just go around to each patient, play for a few minutes, say good Shabbos, and move on,” he recalled. Read more here…
St. Francis Healing Works provides music, art and wellness programs for the community

Musician, artist and former social worker Diana Rose Frances founded St. Francis Healing Works to extend access to the healing arts through Spacecraft, a creative re-use store; Forte Expressive Works, a music program, and more. “I consider the creative healing arts anything that connects people to their own human nature,” Frances explains. “Like, in our human nature, we want to make music and sound, we want to move our bodies and dance, we have an instinct to have healthy food and we all feel rejuvenated after we’re around nature and animals.” Read more here…
Tune into some music for therapy

ALLAHABAD: Music has healing properties, claimed musicians and now, doctors at Beli\TB Sapru hospital too are singing the same tune. To make patients stress free, TB Sapru, known as Beli hospital authorities have introduced music therapy at six wards of the hospital. Read more here…
Local mom moves mountains to bring music therapy to OKC

“Every time I would go to shows and the drummer would be doing a solo my belly would just be going nuts, he responded to that,” she said. So when he started showing anxiety and signs of Autism, Julie used what he loves to help him through regular tasks. Read more here…
Disabled veterans receive the healing gift of music.

CAMDENTON, MO — A local rock band known for helping disabled veterans played an afternoon of music at The Fish and Company
in Camdenton on Sunday in order to raise support for their cause, to give acoustic guitars and music lessons to veterans at Fort Leonard Wood. Read more here…
Indie Trailer Sunday: ‘Alive Inside’ Doc About Healing Through Music

“Have you ever had music just hit you in a place where it immediately brought you to tears? Music has that power.” This looks wonderful. Winner of the Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2014 earlier this year, Alive Inside is a doc by Michael Rossato-Bennett about the power that music has to “awaken memories and emotions that have been asleep for years”. Read more here…
Brentwood College pupils help music- therapy program Friday

Hot off an award-winning streak, Brentwood College singers and instrumentalists are tuned for Friday’s benefit Concert For A Summer’s Eve.The 20th- annual fundraiser for a special-needs program, called Monday Morning Music, will hear hundreds of Brentwood students — groomed by teachers Phil Newns, Elizabeth MacIsaac and Scott McGill — swing into action at the T. Gil Bunch Theatre. Read more here…