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                                               "I MERELY TOOK THE ENERGY IT TAKES TO POUT AND WROTE SOME BLUES."                                                                                                            - DUKE ELLINGTON

Music as a First Language

11/1/2013

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Each time I attend a live musical performance, I am always awed by the soul-piercing effect of music on the audience, be it jazz, blues, gospel, rock, or classical. I witness how music moves the listener spurring relief, joy, play, or an escape into imagination.

Earlier this summer, I visited the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy and spoke with director,
Dr. Alan Turry, on the healing aspects of music and the unique treatment approach of the center.


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Music in Alzheimer's Care

2/10/2011

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Claudia Glaser-Mussen, the sassy singer-accordionist of the Grammy- nominated  children's rock band, Brady  Rymer and The Little Band That Could, has a lot to say about her muse, “I can feel my mother's presence on stage, when I perform; she inspires me and I'm able to  convey that energy to the audience.” A thread of music runs through  Glaser-Mussen’s life, "I grew up in a home where music was a part of our  experience,” she says. Music never became more important for Glaser-Mussen  than it did in the final stages of her mother’s life, when she was coping with Alzheimer’s disease. In this telling, WNYC radio interview, Opera Mom,  Glaser-Mussen and her brother, violinist Matt Glaser, reflected on the role that music had in the  care of their mother, Jeanette Glaser-Taubin, a professional opera singer.


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