For me, music has always been a path to the God of my understanding. I’ve always loved the performances of the Mormon tabernacle Choir and I’ve always loved the music of John Rutter. Hope you’ll enjoy this performance of both of these!

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An expert addresses this very controversial question: “Can Mozart Make You Smarter?”

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Picture a mother softly crooning to her newborn.  Picture this throughout history because I believe that mothers have instinctively done this from the beginning of time.  Why?  Because it calms the infant and it also calms the mother!  What if the baby comes early? 
No one plans for a preemie but all over the world, preemies [...]

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The Magic of Music with Parkinson\’s Disease  This is one of the most amazing and impressive videos that I’ve seen in a long time! It demonstrates beautifully the power of music with Parkinson’s patients.
Now I am offering to people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease my specially programmed, wireless headphones, programmed with the specific type of music that [...]

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Music as medicine: Docs use tunes as treatment
Researchers explore how melodies can help regulate heart, boost hormones
By Bill Briggs
msnbc.com contributor
updated 2:44 p.m. ET, Mon., June 1, 2009
As Victor Fabry napped in his hospital bed, a quiet symphony filled his room. The steady pulse of a cardiac monitor marked the progress of his mending heart. Over [...]

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Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered the world’s oldest known musical instrument – a flute made from a vulture bone which is believed to be 35,000 years old.
The ancient flute was found in the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany by a team led by University of Tuebingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard.
Conard said the find proved [...]

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http://the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com/2009/07/music-releases-endorphins-in-brain.html
Everyone knows that music makes them feel better, but apparently, music immediately after surgery is even more powerful than previously known. today I came across this article: By Denise DadorLOS ANGELES (KABC) — A local hospital takes the healing properties of music right to the patients.
She’s in the hospital, but Carol Starks feels she’s being [...]

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Could music make your life better?
I know that all of you know that I am also a musicologist and music healer. Tonight as I listened to “America’s Got Talent” I was so touched by a woman who sang her heart out and the judges loved her. When asked how she felt after this outstanding performance, [...]

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The word about music during surgery is getting out! I did a lecture this past Friday night at a large Presbyterian Church here in Louisville and then appeared on a widely-broadcast radio show here earlier this evening! Once people begin to understand what a huge benefit music during surgery is, the more they not only [...]

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I want to extend a special invitation to all my local friends and clients to attend a free lecture that I am giving this Friday night, July 10th at 7:00 PM at Second Presbyterian Church, 3701 Old Brownsboro Road, Louisville, 40207. The church is near the intersection of Brownsboro Rd. and Chenoweth Lane.
My topic [...]

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When I started this blog a little over a year ago, I certainly never thought there would be a connection between Michael Jackson, music and anesthesia. And yet, in the final hours of his life, it was quite possibly a dose (or overdose) of one of the most potent anesthetics available; the drug is Propofol, known by its commercial name of Diprovan.

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How early can the baby hear?
Of all the questions that I get, I think one of the top five is “how early can my baby hear outside the womb?” It’s hard to imagine, but for centuries people actually thought the baby was in a deep cocoon and that the ears began to function after birth! [...]

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Good evening! Just wanted to be sure that you know that in addition to this blog, I have a free monthly ezine that I publish at the end of each month. In the little publication I try to cover the big stories of that month’s music and medicine research, case histories, or inspirational [...]

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