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LINCOLN CENTER MOMENTS

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A music program reviving some memories that dementia has taken away. 

Many of us have relatives who are suffering from various forms of dementia.  There’s a program at Lincoln Center in New York called Lincoln Center Moments that has cognitive benefits for those suffering and helps them and their caregivers. It’s also open to those around the world via their virtual programs.

Katie Fanning, of the program says there are many examples of how the program has revived long dormant memories. 

 

Here are links to the items mentioned in the podcast.

Surgical Records As Lyrics?

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We’re introducing you again to composer/singer Molly Joyce.  She’s the disabled musician who has been featured on Staccato before.  You can hear it here. 

This Julliard grad returns with a new album STATE CHANGE with an unusual lyrical content: That of her medical records regarding the near decade long treatment for her disabled left hand.   The music is all her compositions via some new technology she had to learn to use to make this album.

Molly Joyce is releasing the new album in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990.

The Lullaby Project

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There’s a program coming up live and online in New York that is all about babies and music.  It’s from Carnegie Hall’s The Lullaby Project.  This is a concert of many of the songs composed by new parents with the help of professional musicians.  Some of the performers are opera singers who sang some of the compositions written by the parents.   Austin Classical Guitar was involved in this program, helping local parents express their emotions about their very young children.

Tiffany Ortiz, the Director of Early Childhood Programs at Carnegie Hall is inviting others to develop their own Lullaby Projects.    

Music From The Milky Way and Beyond

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The universe sings.  Or at least it provides data that’s music to the ears of NASA scientists working at the Chandra X-ray Observatory in Cambridge, MA.  By a process of Sonification these scientists/technicians/musicians translate data into sound.  More specifically music, which is now on an album called Universal Harmonies.

Dr. Kimberly Arcand, a visualization scientist at NASA,  says she was inspired by an astronomer who is blind.