Tweet 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 […]
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Healing Music or Music Healing?
Tweet Music is healing! To the mind, the body and the spirit. Almost everyone on the planet has some sort of music that they really, really love and choose to listen to! But is it the music itself that heals and soothes, or is it about the person performing it, or is it the method […]
Music is Good for your Health: But we knew that!
Tweet Yes indeed, music is good for your health! In fact, Music Therapy is a recognized form of treatment for a variety of disorders and conditions. The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) states that “Music therapy is an established health-care profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of […]
Healing Music: Please do not kill the Louisville Orchestra!
Tweet 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 […]
The You-Tube Symphony: How does that work?
Tweet The motley program the YouTube Symphony Orchestra will play at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening was devised partly to ensure every section a place or two in the sun. So after full-orchestral rehearsals at the Juilliard School on Monday — led by Michael Tilson Thomas, its artistic adviser and conductor, and Tan Dun, who […]