After suffering a brain hemorrhage, 7-year-old Charlotte Neve slipped into a coma. The British girl was unconscious for several days and doctors feared she wouldn’t recover. Her mother, Leila Neve, was at her bedside when Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” started playing on the radio. Leila and Charlotte often sang the song together and Leila […]
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How music affects behavior?
By Dr. Alice Cash on November 30, 2011 in Music and Emotion, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the News!
Have you wondered about how music affects the behavior of adolescents? This is one of the most frequent questions I get when I go out to speak around the country. I think it’s a bit of a rhetorical questions because we know that music is powerful and does affect people’s behavior, but especially people who are […]
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 […]
4th of July: How important is the music?
By Dr. Alice Cash on July 7, 2011 in Music and Emotion, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body
I guess that’s a bit of a loaded question. Since I am a professional musician who loves music more than the air I breathe and wishes that everyone else did to, of course I believe that you can’t even celebrate the 4th of July without music! Luckily, I’m pretty sure that many other people feel […]
Is all rap bad?? Of course not!
When I wrote this post, I never dreamed I would get so many comments from other people, I’ve chosen to post just a select few, but the fun thing is that so many people recognize “Fur Elise” prominently featured in this wonderful hip=hop song!! I’m always taken aback when someone says to me that they […]