Can music prevent the “Swine flu”????
Of course, the short answer is “no!” but I did get your attention didn’t I?  The serious answer is that music can help your overall state of wellness and many music therapy studies have documented that listening to your favorite music for at least 30 minutes a day can actually [...]

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Announcing a new course on” Music as Therapy”

I want to tell you about a wonderful new course that will be offered online this summer by my dear friend and mentor, Dr. Arthur Harvey.  The course will be quite comprehensive and cover many aspects of healing with music, how music affects the mind-body, the brain and [...]

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Commentary from Lutz Jäncke (Thanks to Dr. Ellen Taliaferro for sharing this study with me)
This study supports my own interpretation of the brain’s capability for experience-dependent influences 
on brain anatomy and function. In concrete, this study demonstrates that 6-year-old children receiving 
instrumental musical training for 15 months not only learned to play their musical instrument but also 
showed changed anatomical features [...]

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Want to know more about how Bach affects your brain? Here is an excellent study from Vanderbilt University.

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How soon should you talk with doctor?
If you have just been told that you are going to need surgery, there probably is a 50/50 chance that you knew this already.  But if it comes as a total surprise, you may be a bit numb at first and feel confused and even panicky.  No one wants [...]

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The main morning shows, late night TV and celebrity sites and magazines continue to follow Susan Boyle with amazement and much-deserved admiration!  This morning’s topic of interest seems to be her apparent “make-over.”  The “make-over” includes a hair color that no longer has any gray in it and plucked, shaped eyebrows!   Has she been [...]

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Why do we all love lullabies? Read this and find out! You’ll be glad you did!

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Recently, I have been working with a gentleman in this 80’s who is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease.  He is a retired minister and was and is much beloved in our community.  Each week I go to his home and he sits on the couch, facing the piano, with his wife on one [...]

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Who IS Susan Boyle?  She is a kindly, 47 y.o. single woman from Blackburn, Scotland who has spent most of her adult life caring for her elderly mother.  She claims she was made fun of as a child and was a “slow learner.”  Several years ago she started singing karaoke in a local pub in [...]

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I’ve just returned from a fantastic trip to Paris and Dublin with two of my daughters and we had such a wonderful time.  I think most of you know that I have a background as a harpsichordist (as well as a pianist) and did all of my Ph.D. dissertation research in Paris in 1987.  I [...]

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