Music For Maternity

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There has been a surge in the practice of using music as a medical treatment during the past 10 years. In fact, Pennsylvania has the highest number of music therapists in the country, at around 400. But there are only eight in West Virginia. A new program at West Virginia University is trying to change that. Read more here…

A VERY special Toowoomba choir gathers each week, bringing together people of all abilities who love to sing. The Rainbow Choir, run by local not-for-profit organisation ASSERT Services, involves 30 members of all ages who live with a disability.  Read more here…

Mackenzie Schneider grew up loving to play music — first the piano, then the violin, as well as singing. When it came time to choose a college and a career, the talented St. Louis area native knew she wanted to pursue music. Red more here…

SAN ANTONIO – After watching the documentary “Alive Inside,” Victoria Reyna, then president of the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity at UTSA, said her members were inspired. “Of course, we were all in tears and just decided we have to do something about this and bring it to our community,” Reyna said. Read more here…

While Lorain attorney Jack Bradley is fighting for clients in the courtroom, his daughter, Jaclyn Bradley Palmer is battling anxiety in the hospital. Palmer, 36, is a music therapist at University Hospitals and her music in breast cancer surgery study was just published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Read more here…

Have you ever listened to a song that you haven’t heard in a while, but you can still sing all the words? Do you remember things better by associating them with lyrics? Neurologic Music Therapy grasps these concepts as healing strategies for patients with brain injuries. Read more here…

As I entered the first floor main lobby of the Cape Coral Hospital I could hear the strains of a keyboard rendition of a Broadway musical. Carole Sharo was at the keyboard, which was set up in the hallway adjacent to the chapel, providing the music. Carole plays here on Tuesday afternoons. Read more here…

Music therapist Claire Littlejohn gathers the sleeping baby girl from her incubator in Trident Medical Center’s Level II nursery, and they settle into a rocker. Iris Monroe Boyer arrived six weeks earlier than expected, and at nine days old, she weighs four pounds, two ounces. To help Iris adjust to stimulation, Littlejohn sings her a lullaby. Read more here…

Burning Man can be overwhelming in general, but especially if you don’t particularly care for techno music. Fear not, though: if you find yourself in Black Rock City and are not into raving to pounding EDM, there are still countless things to do. Read more here…

LOWELL — Benjamin Scheuer’s autobiographical show “The Lion” lives somewhere in between the forms of musical, cabaret performance, and song cycle. So it delivers more entertainment than a simple album of his songs, less psychological insight than one might hope for upon a trip to the theater, but all the feel-good triumph of a sentimental musical. Read more here…