A little bit of Hush helps families heal
Dr Catherine Crock, pictured above with musician Joe Chindamo and patient Holly Richards, created the Hush music collection to calm young patients and their families.
Photo: Justin McManus
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Venezuela prison orchestra gives hope to inmates
The music project is currently being run in several prisons in Venezuela
NHS urged to pay for music therapy to cure depression
Making music using African percussion instruments has been proven to help people recover from depression by enabling them to express repressed emotions and communicate painful experiences.
Why Do We Do This?
This is the most difficult time to be an arts manager in my 26 years in the profession.
The day the music died
FILLING A VOID: Life without music seems hollow.
Picture: Jamie Hanson Source: The Courier-Mail
Relaxing, Touching the Memory, Music Helps With the Final Transition
On Tuesdays in the Bronx, Yelena Zatulovsky, a music therapist, plays songs for Millicent Williams, 94, who came to the United States from Jamaica as a young girl, and now is dying of colon cancer.
Photograph: Suzanne De Chillo/The New York Times
Every week, three music therapists from MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care crisscross the city and suburbs to sing songs to the dying. With guitars strapped to their backs, a flute or tambourine and a songbook jammed in their backpacks, they play music for more than 100 patients, in housing projects, in nursing homes and even in a lavish waterfront home. The time for chemotherapy and radiation is over.
Major Trove Of Classical Music Manuscripts For Sale
J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 171 is part of the Lehman Collection. The iron-gall ink Bach used to compose the piece has eroded the paper.
Photo: Caroline Cooper
For music lovers, some melodies may seem priceless. But if you ever wondered what music is really worth — like the original manuscript to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero? That score and about 200 more, which reside at New York’s Morgan Library, are on sale for $135 million. They are part of the esteemed Lehman Collection — a group of nearly 200 scores that reads like a greatest hits of classical music. Christoph Wolff, a professor of music history at Harvard, calls it “the trophy collection.”
Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd
Christopher Shih, a doctor from Maryland, won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs held in Fort Worth last month.
Credit: Rodger Mallison/Van Cliburn Foundation
The crowd is taking over. Tasks that have traditionally been performed by highly skilled professionals are increasingly being outsourced to the masses, often with surprising results. And it’s not only production that is being crowd sourced. Judgments about the quality of that production, traditionally determined by experts, are also being turned over to the crowd. Champions of crowd sourcing claim that tapping the talents of the many, even the amateur or untrained many, can often meet or surpass the efforts of the expert few.
Why do people play music in public through a phone?
For many, teenagers playing tinny music to each other on public transport on their mobile phones can be intensely irritating. Why do they do it?
Cambridge Union declares classical music not irrelevant after all
The Telegraph’s music critic Ivan Hewett sat with Stephen Fry on the winning side of a debate about whether classical music is irrelevant to today’s youth.
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