CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC PRESENTS
Concetta Tomaino—Music and Medicine!
Sunday, March 29, 3 PM, The Mount
THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF ITS 2019-20 CONVERSATIONS WITH….SERIES… INTIMATE AND STIMULATING AFTERNOONS ON MUSIC AND IDEAS
(Lenox, MA…) Close collaborator of Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of the breakthrough book Awakenings (made into a movie starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams), Concetta Tomaino has done groundbreaking research on the uses of music in the neurological rehabilitation of patients living with the effects of autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as stroke and trauma. She is executive director of the Institute for Music and Neurological Function and a faculty member at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her work has been featured in A Matter of Dignity by Andrew Potok, The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell, Sounds of Healing by Mitchell Gaynor and Age Protectors (Rodale Press) and covered on the BBC and…
View original post 725 more words
MARY CALVO 