With Halloween here, I’ve been contemplating what makes music scary. Some of my younger readers may not know that for a couple of decades, movies were silent. In other words, the audience just read the dialogue at the bottom of the screen, and a pianist sat to the side of the screen and literally improvised […]
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Using Music with Lumpectomy Surgery
Are you having a lumpectomy? Or breast surgery of any kind? Surgery is a frightening experience and especially when the end result is so unknown! A mass in the breast might be one thing and it might be something very different. Anxiety tends to run sky-high and yet you know that you don’t want to […]
Mozart by Cat
Nora the cat pawing out a little music.
Another story of Music's Healing Power
By Dr. Alice Cash on October 7, 2011 in Music and the Brain, Music and the Golden Years, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
Music helps when all else fails. Published on September 28, 2011 by Susan R. Barry, Ph.D. in Eyes on the Brain My 89-year-old father lives three miles from me in an Assisted Care home. Like many of the other residents, he can barely walk and is terribly withdrawn. It is a struggle to find ways […]
Healing Music: Please do not kill the Louisville Orchestra!
The Louisville Orchestra: A Rebuttal (from the blog of Vivian Ruth Sawyer) One really doesn’t know whether to laugh or to cry in response to Chuck Maisch’s column about the Louisville Orchestra in the Courier- Journal on September 18, 2011. Maisch states correctly that the Louisville Orchestra has been on unstable financial footing seven times […]