Posts Tagged ‘music’
Music therapy ‘reversed cancer’

A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. A woman claims her arthritis and skin condition have been cured and her cancer reversed after she listened to “musical medicine”. Katy Meiklem, from Fife, suffered progressive ill health for seven years, with constant severe pain, restricted mobility and psoriasis which caused rashes all over her body. Read more here…
Custom music therapy for cancer patients designed by Pandora’s chief musicologist

He has made a career out of tailoring people’s taste in music to create individualized streams using Pandora’s Music Genome Project, and now he is using that experience to help treat the symptoms of cancer patients with a specific type of music therapy. Read more here…
Music therapy helps families to make connections
The sound of music is bringing joy and triggering positive behaviors in the homes of music therapy patients throughout the Mercer-Bucks area. Allison Pindale of Yardley, Pa., is one music therapist who makes it happen.
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Watch heartwarming moment Wet Wet Wet perform with autistic boy at music therapy centre

The band have supported charity Nordoff Robbins for a number of years and performed their song Love Is All Around This is the heartwarming moment Wet Wet Wet performed one of their biggest hits – helped by an 11-year-old boy with autism. Read more here…
Pandora + Memorial Sloan Kettering Are Working on Music Therapy for Cancer Patients

Pandora musicologist Nolan Gasser has teamed up with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to combine the streaming platform’s powerful algorithm with music therapy theories in hopes of finding music that could alleviate the pain and discomfort of those suffering from cancer. Read more here…
A serendipitous life: Ysaye Barnwell and the healing power of music

Ysaye Barnwell didn’t plan to end up in Ferguson. Her vocal workshop was supposed to be held in nearby St. Louis, but it was going to conflict with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations and had to be moved. And so the Washington singer and composer found herself in mid-March in the headline-making Missouri city that had been on her mind for weeks. Before there was Baltimore, there was Ferguson, and she had found an aspect of the protests there puzzling.
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Music, healing found at Fort Logan National Cemetery on Memorial Day

A deep voice crooning Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” faintly carried across a sea of American flags and marble gravestones at Fort Logan National Cemetery on Monday morning. As veterans, active servicemen and women, and family and friends of fallen members of the country’s armed forces gathered for the annual Memorial Day ceremony, Alan Rael stood over the gravestone of his mother and father, Alfonso and Theresa Rael, and serenaded them with his guitar. Read more here…
KSO documenting results of Music and Wellness Program

(WBIR) – The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is wrapping up its season this week with a free concert Thursday evening in Maryville. One program, however, is bringing music to people who can’t make it out to concerts. For more than a decade now, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Music and Wellness Program has been playing music at local healthcare facilities. Read more here…
SPECIAL REPORT: How music therapy is changing lives in Central Texas

From Bob Dylan to The Beatles, musicians have been influencing the masses for decades. Now, music is changing lives in another way. “We’ve discovered music therapy helps certain neurologic conditions such as traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease,” said neurologist Dr. David Morledge. Peter Skidmore has been attending music therapy sessions to help him with a medical condition. Read more here…
Kiwi musicians perform for music therapy fundraiser

Kiwi musicians are banding together for a worthy cause.The Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre provides services to children and young adults with special needs, but crucial funding is needed to continue their work. Without any statutory funding the centre needs to raise $750,000 a year to cover its operating costs. Read more here…