I started playing the piano when was about three years old. I wasn’t a prodigy but I did love the sound of the piano and would be mesmerized by anyone who could play. We didn’t even have a piano but I would go next-door to my father’s church and find an availabe piano and pick […]
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The Power of Music with Alzheimer's Patients
You’ve probably heard of how powerful familiar music is with Alzheimer’s patients. When I first stepped into the field of music medicine, one of the first research studies that I did dealt with “The Therapeutic Use of Music with Alzheimer’s Patients.” In a nutshell, it seems that the music that you listen to during your “courting years” […]
Have you seen this 5 y.o. Korean piano prodigy?
I am blessed to have friends from all over the planet! One of these dear friends sent me a video clip last night of a little Korean prodigy and her appearance on Korea’s version of American Idol. They are calling her the “Korean Mozart” but the difference (besides the fact that she’s a little girl!) […]
Surgery with Music: Now happening in N.J.
For much of his life — indeed, for all of this and much of the past century — Victor Parsonnet has stood at the center of Newark history, especially in the fields of medicine and music. As a cardiac surgeon, he has been closely involved with such pioneering developments as the pacemaker, the transplant, and […]
One last post about "Celtic Woman"
I know that there must be people who don’t care for Celtic music, but since this is my blog and my opinions I’m going to wrie one last post on “Celtic Woman.” I am basking in the beauty of the concert I went to over 48 hours ago and I still cannot get enough of […]