Posts Tagged ‘music’
Community Center Offers Music Therapy for Non-Verbal Children
The Fairbank Community Center is offering a month-long music course for non-verbal children and their parents that will help develop communication skills. Read more here…
Music therapy helps Idaho seniors remember the past
EAGLE — An Idaho musician is using his talents to help senior citizens relive the past through the music that helped shape their lives. Read more here…
Berklee Partners with hack/reduce for First-Ever Music Therapy Hackathon

Berklee College of Music is pioneering a completely new realm of musical therapy this weekend by hosting a first-ever music therapy hackathon. Participants from all over Boston will be working in teams to develop tools for real-world medical conditions in a span of just 24 hours. Read more here…
Music therapy kick-starts 100th birthday celebrations of two Bournemouth residents

MUSIC therapy session kick-started the 100th birthday celebrations of two residents at a care home in Boscombe yesterday. Mary Revens and Wilfred Long, who both reside at Shalden Grange care home, Watkin Road, have both received their cards and telegrams from the Queen in the last week. To mark the occasion staff held a music therapy session followed by food and cake – with relatives invited to get involved. Read more here…
United Hospital Center Hopes to Bring Music Therapy Program to the Cancer Center

BRIDGEPORT – United Hospital Center’s Cecil B. Highland and Barbara B. Highland Cancer Center offers many programs and services for cancer patients that can make the experience a little easier and now it hopes to add one more program to the center. Read more here…
Moby, Wolfgang Gartner and Sander Kleinenberg come together to support Music Therapy in upcoming documentary, ‘Before We Were Kings’
It is a mantra you hear time and time again – “Music saved my life.”. Brandon Ross of Ross Moving Pictures is diving beyond the surface of the common four-word catchphrase and exploring the notion of music as a form of therapy. Ross’ upcoming documentary, Before We Were Kings, introduces a handful of celebrated producers in a new, revealing light: Moby, Wolfgang Gartner, Sander Kleinenberg and several other DJs come together for the film to shed their celebrity skins and speak to the healing, progressive powers of music. Read more here…
The “Opt-Out” Movement, the Healing Power of Music & An Italian Treat for Spring
On this week’s Need to Know Rochester – we’ll hear from parents who say their kids will be “opting out” of next week’s state tests. Learn why and how area districts are responding to the “opt-out” movement of common core testing. Read more here…
Springtime ignites with melodious birdsong

Though birds may actually sing for a variety of natural, self-serving reasons, such as expressing territorialism, sexual desire, dominance, safety and alarm, and newly discovered food sources, the resultant positive sound therapy provides health benefits to those humans who are willing to listen. Read more here…
Medical Center of Central Georgia Seeks Community’s Support to Get Music Therapy Grant
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Medical Center of Central Ggeorgia needs the community’s help. The hospital is a candidate for the LIVESTRONG Foundation’s 2014 Community Impact Project. Jill Hancock from MCCG stopped by 41 Today to tell us how you can help. Read more here…
Christus-NB now offering music therapy
Music therapy in a hospital-setting is designed to alleviate pain, elevate mood, and provide relaxation for patients. Music has been a healing influence on the mind, body, and soul for centuries, and CSRH-NB is pleased to bring the healing power of music to the bedside. Read more here…