Music is a powerful tool for motivating, inspiring, educating and soothing pain. No one is immune from the power of music. Many of the world’s scientists, medical doctors, and mathematicians have studied and played musical instruments since they were children. These eminent individuals have integrated music into their thinking process. Albert Einstein won his Nobel [...]

Music has the power to motivate, inspire, educate and soothe pain. No one is immune from the power of music. Tap on the link to hear the new One Minute Radio Show for November Many of the worlds scientists, medical doctors, and mathematicians have studied and played musical instruments since they were children. These eminent [...]

October 2007 marks the first anniversary of Madeline’s Monthly Article & Musical Tips. Music has the power to motivate, inspire, educate and soothe pain. No one is immune from the power of music. CLICK TO HEAR my new One Minute Radio Show (600k mp3 file; right click and SAVE LINK AS to download to your computer) Oliver Sacks, [...]

Dr. Oliver Sacks, Professor of Clinical Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, author of Awakenings, has been playing the piano since childhood and continues to play. He uses music to help his patients recover after different illnesses. One of his patients, a stroke victim , was unable to speak. Dr. Sacks had a musician [...]

At the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, "the healing power of music was a central theme of the lectures." These weekly sessions were called "Music For Air". The lectures were given to medical professionals, music therapists, and musicians by experts on a weekly basis for [...]

Studying music is making a difference in the lives of top graduates across the country. June was graduation month for high schools ,colleges and universities throughout the United States. In South Bend, Indiana 50% of the Valedictorians and Salutatorians, 13 out of 26 top graduates, were musicians and scholars. The article “Valedictorians, Salutatorians and Grads for [...]

On May 8, 2007, the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown ,1607-2007, was celebrated at the White House with music played throughout the day and evening. President and Mrs. Bush greeted Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, on the White House lawn with a blaze of trumpets and music from the Fife [...]

The nations teacher of the year is Granite Falls music teacher, Andrea Peterson. On April 26,2007, she was honored at the White House in the Rose Garden by President Bush who also spoke about the teachers at Virginia Tech for their heroism , their devotion and dedication to their students. Liviu Librescu, taught mathematics and [...]

Music has the power to motivate, inspire, and to soothe pain. In a hospital , a patient finds her voice after a stroke when her favorite song is played. She sings the words to the song and remembers her voice. Students in a elementary school classroom listen to classical music, played softly in the background, [...]

In newspapers across the United States, Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa the healing power of music is being used to help students learn in school and at home and help adults to move better and relax. Volunteer musicians are playing concerts at the bedside of patients, a Norfolk Virginia Public School plays classical [...]