For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this past Sunday evening, you probably know the answer to that. For anyone who’s been living on another planet, here’s how it goes: athletic events are always preceded by someone singing the National Anthem, also sometimes know as “Oh Say Can you See?” Previous Super Bowls […]
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A small lesson on ancient music healing methods in Sumeria
When did the culture of Sumeria thrive? According to my sources, that would be 4th millennium B.C. According to Wikipedia, instruments of Ancient Mesopotamia include harps, lyres, lutes, reed pipes, and drums. Many of these were shared with neighbouring cultures. Contemporary East African lyres and West African lutes preserve many features of Mesopotamian instruments (van […]
Music as Medicine: Ted Talk
By now, you have heard me say hundreds of times that music as medicine, is good, powerful, healing and non-addictive. The awareness that music is a type, a form, of medicine is ancient. The Greeks and Romans knew about the power of music; the Bible talks about the power of music over and over. The […]
The Power of Using Music as Medicine
As the days get shorter and the nights get longer, many people have to fight against depression. At the same time, more and more of my psychotherapy clients prefer not to take medication, if at all possible. Personally and professionally, I believe that antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications have really come a long way and are […]
An orchestra conductor bids audience goodbye in a powerful way
This afternoon, as I was driving home from the fitness center, I heard a very moving story about the Minnesota Orchestra. The orchestra there in Minneapolis has been shut out for over a year now. The conductor, Osmo Vanska, had said that unless the problems were resolved by October 1, he would have no choice […]