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Anyone who has blasted Arcade Fire before a party can attest to music’s transformative powers. But music isn’t just a mood-booster: Music therapists use pitch, rhythm, melody and lyrics in specific ways, with the explicit intent of affecting cognition or emotion in the person who is hearing them.  Read more here…

DEARBORN — Recent studies and books have determined that music and art bring healing and social benefits to all ages, especially older adults. In the book, “Bringing the Arts to Life,” funded by the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation, author Judy Rollins offers a guide to the arts and long-term care.  Read more here…

During the last years of James Jenkins’ life, his son, James Jenkins Jr., who is principal tuba player with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, would often visit his father in hospitals in Waycross, Ga.  Read more here…

A musical therapist who works with terminally ill children and their families at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has begun creating musical memories using the heartbeats of dying patients. Read more here…

As 14-year-old Dylan Bennett lay dying in the intensive care unit of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Brian Schreck recorded his heartbeat. He then paired rhythmic thumping with some of Dylan’s favorite music to create a song for the Bennetts to keep. Read more here…

I think this is a planet of compassion. It’s like a humongous university and we all major in some subject until we learn it. I’m grateful that he’s alive. I still feel bad for what happened and the people that he hurt. He had to go to San Quentin for what he did. And I can’t bring that person back. I only hope they can see that I’m trying to bring some sort of healing to all parties. Music is a healing force. Read more here…

Fort Campbell, KY – The sound of music filled the Fort Campbell Soldier and Family Assistance Center May 15th, 2014 as volunteers taught military children how to communicate through music. Read more here…

BILLINGS – Being able to lay down on a specially designed bed and get up with with a clearer, more focused spirit: that’s one of the many benefits of the Music Resonator Table, according to its inventor, Tana Streeter. For over two decades, Streeter has been a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She says the Music Resonator Table can be used for many things, such as alleviating chronic pain, balancing your left and right brain, and helping emotional disorders. Read more here…

A musical memory that the creator. Hopes will — Brian track tries to help families cope with a family members and of life diagnosis and death. Through innovative music therapy. So when Margaret and Jeremy Bennett’s fourteen year old son Dylan was done in the intensive care unit in Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital. Brian decided he would create a unique song for the best key. Bryant combined — heart — this — on — share in its Lego house. Read more here…

Inspired by the Hindu concept of Brahman and musically influenced by everything from funk to R&B to electronica to classic rock, Jahman Brahman strives to bring a unique blend of feel-good music, evolved consciousness and unity to the stage at Billy’s Lounge on Friday night. Read more here…