Music For Maternity

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Jazz trumpeter, composer, poet, and community activist Hannibal Lokumbe noticed early in life that music had the power to change people’s lives. He took up trumpet, and after college, moved to New York City, where he played with jazz greats Gil Evans, Roy Haynes, and Cecil Taylor, among others. Read more here…

Music can provide a space for healing, feeling and thought. Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, including at a show in that city’s Bataclan concert hall, we were compelled to play music with a meditative tone, songs that allow space and time for reflection. A tune Bob Boilen found himself playing all weekend was by Hiya Wal Âalam, a band featuring members from Tunisia, Palestine and Sweden. It’s culture-blending music and perfectly pensive. Robin Hilton’s choice of a song by pianist Goldmund gave him some space for moments of solace as the news unfolded this weekend. Read more here…

At The Baird Nursing Home in Rochester, N.Y., residents soar through their physical therapy with a song. The skilled nursing community combines music therapy and senior physical therapy in special programs led by Molly Pow, a professional music therapist at Rochester’s Hochstein School of Music and Dance. Read more here…

Music therapy. A noble profession, but it has been seemingly unknown and underestimated in many places. The excellent article in the West Central Tribune on Oct. 31 was very clear and exact in what music therapy is and what a music therapist does. Read more here…

Sitting near a hospital bed at Altru Hospital, Leslie Saulsbury spreads the tools of her trade on the blanket in front of 7-year-old Josiah Green. The assorted music-making instruments include a portable keyboard, maracas, tambourine and a wooden stick with hinged, cup-shaped clappers that, when shaken, sound like horses’ hooves on pavement. Read more here…

Brockton native Nicholas Capachione, 23, entered Recovery Unplugged — a Florida-based rehab facility that uses music to kick addiction — a “broken person” hooked on oxycodone. But he emerged stronger than ever. “It was the happiest time of my life,” Capachione said. “Everyone can connect on a level with music. You feel the lyrics.” Read more here…

Christina Aguilera’s childhood wasn’t “emotionally safe and secure”. The ‘Fighter’ hitmaker – who has been publicly open about domestic abuse she witnessed between her father and her mother when she was younger – admits she found music her “outlet” and praised its “therapeutic” nature. Read more here…

Music therapy. A noble profession, but it has been seemingly unknown and underestimated in many places. Music therapy. A noble profession, but it has been seemingly unknown and underestimated in many places. Read more here…

Brockton native Nicholas Capachione, 23, entered Recovery Unplugged — a Florida-based rehab facility that uses music to kick addiction — a “broken person” hooked on oxycodone. But he emerged stronger than ever. Read more here…

TEDxChattanooga, an independently organized event in the spirit of TED Talks, will feature more than a dozen speakers with Chattanooga stories ranging from a biohacker who made headlines when he confronted a street preacher, to a music therapist who studies the effects of music on the brain. Read more here…