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The conference, “Sound Advice,” will educate health care workers and family caregivers on the benefits of music therapy in the care of seriously ill patients. It will also address how music can be used for the general renewal and relaxation. Read more here….

Renowed Musician , Chairperson Swarangan Meditation & Spiritual Music Therapy Guru Raj Kumar Dogra has condemned the fatwa against Kashmir’s music band girls by Grand Mufti Bashir ud din Ahmed and threats from Hurriyat to remain away from music. Read more here….

Brindisi is a certified music therapist who works for VNA Care Network & Hospice. To earn that certification, she went to the Berklee College of Music for four years, did a six-month internship and took a three- to four-hour exam that put her education and experience to the test.  Read more here…

Carolyn Williams sits by five-year-old Katherine Vitorino’s hospital bed, strumming her guitar and singing a medley of songs. “This Old Man” gives way to “Itsy Bitsy Spider,” followed by “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and “Baby Beluga.” Katherine has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak, see or walk. But music therapy has opened a whole new world to the little girl with the angelic face and joyful smile. Read more here…

An ancient practice linked with physical and mental benefits — such as an improved immune system, lower blood pressure and positive brain changes — could also aid in a more cultural matter: really getting into music. Read more here….

“Humans have used music in healing forever,” said Jane Matson, the choral director at Newtown High School. “It expresses our feelings and gets emotion out in a way that’s constructive and beautiful. So I don’t think it’s any surprise that in trying to heal here, we would turn to music.” Read more here…

The men and women display a variety of developmental and intellectual disorders from schizophrenia to mental retardation. The day rehabilitation group is a subset of clients at the John Eskew Training Facility on Ashley Avenue in Alexandria who are unable to function independently. Read more here…

Emma Donaldson, co-administrative director of the Special Needs Foundation, said: “These sessions are designed to discuss a range of therapies and expertise in the field of special needs. We were delighted to have Cayman Music Therapy discuss how music can help with special needs children.”   Read more here…

Now a group of Memphis musicians are making sure the hospital receives some good karma for its philanthropy. Through the Musicians for Le Bonheur project, artists are banding together to create a compilation album in which all proceeds benefit the hospital. Read more here…

Music not only soothes the soul but it can help provide relief to certain physical and mental symptoms in the body, according to a neurologist. Though music therapy has been a part manlond’s culture since centuries (Hippacrates, the Greek father of medcine is said to have played music to help his patients heal faster), it was after the World Warrs that the Western socieites began hanrnessing the skills of music players as they travelled to hospitals where the wounded and depressed soldiers lay, helping them come out of their emotional trauma. Read more here….