Music For Maternity

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A tango begins, and the man, wearing a porkpie hat and suit, leads. The woman, wearing a floral dress, follows gracefully. Judging by the ease and fluidity of their movements, one would never know that Nancy Dufault, 72, has Parkinson’s disease. When she is dancing, moving in time with her husband, Bob, she experiences a brief respite from symptoms. Read more here…

For Carole Glenn and Judy Friesem, music is a healing art, and it’s something that they do regularly. Both women work for Hospice of Kitsap County part-time, offering up soothing tunes to the dying — a job some musicians would find too challenging. Read more here…

What ties together Lissajous knots, the harmonic polyrhythms of Theremin’s rhythmicon, and a way of adding sounds to Pendulum waves? And do they have healing properties? And what is the musical maths of sloth canon number sequences?. Read more here…

OELWEIN – The refrain of “O, Suzanna” echoes through Memory Care at Arlington Place Assisted Living in Oelwein, with clavichord accompaniment. Several older voices are heard, led by the young voice of Kathleen Marsh, music therapist. Read more here…

Stepping onto the Children’s elevators each day, guitars on our backs and instruments in hand, we tend to draw comments from fellow riders. They range from the typical “You must be the entertainment” to “Do you actually play all those instruments?” to “I wish I had your job.” Read more here…

While there are stages of grieving that might be common — shock, numbness, anger, denial, sorrow, resignation, acceptance and healing — how we deal with fate depends on our character, experience of life and the help and influence of those we love. Read more here…

Music and painting are being combined with therapy to provide a healing touch to patients at a Kochi hospital. Tanya Abraham finds out more about art therapy, the creative take on tackling health problems. Read more here…

Art therapies have become a mainstream partner to medicalised healing. Murals in hospitals, personalised musical memories for dementia sufferers, a Hillsborough memorial symphony – all give respite to troubled souls. Read more here…

Internationally acclaimed Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda along with the Bhakti Bliss Band (composed of Richard Cole on bass, Chuck White on the sitar and Mohan Veena and Ankush Vimawala on tabla) will perform 7:30 p.m. Sunday at The Haven Underground. Read more here…

Sawyer Wood is small for his age, which is 4. He has strawberry blond hair, a tracheotomy, and loves to jump on his hospital bed.The little boy was born with heart failure and whisked to the Hospital for Sick Children at birth. He had open-heart surgery at four days old. Since then, he has spent 80 per cent of his short life in the hospital, the most recent stint going on nine weeks. Read more here…