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CLKD

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Music Heals: Music Unites
« on: October 26, 2020, 01:33:33 PM »

If U get the chance do watch the BBC News .  A man in his 80s with dementia has composted a tune which has been taken up the BBC Philomonic Orchestra  :-*, recorded and Stephen Sondheim is tempted to 'borrow it'  8)
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2020, 02:57:27 PM »

 :thankyou:  wonderful combination of ideas.  Where would we be without Zoom etc.  8)
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2020, 04:43:40 PM »

Aww that was amazing,big lump in my throat  :'(
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2020, 04:45:20 PM »

....... and mine.  If DH hadn't been sitting beside me I would have bawled  :'(
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2020, 10:29:36 AM »

If U get the chance do watch the BBC News .  A man in his 80s with dementia has composted a tune which has been taken up the BBC Philomonic Orchestra  :-*, recorded and Stephen Sondheim is tempted to 'borrow it'  8)
Can you grow mushrooms in composted tunes?
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CLKD

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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2020, 12:20:58 PM »

 :medal:    :rofl:


How's the rodent nest sheila?  growing by the day ..........
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2020, 12:31:18 PM »

Still there. I admit to a weakness, I find mice rather cute and hate killing them.
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2020, 01:45:03 PM »

Still there. I admit to a weakness, I find mice rather cute and hate killing them.

Reminds me of DH being stopped by a woman, when he was on duty as a traffic policeman. She asked him if he could release a mouse that she had in a humane mousetrap with her! She was taking it away from her house by car. Yes, he did release it to her relief. Not the normal kind of police duty!
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2020, 01:46:07 PM »

Did the mouse hop, skip and dance away, whistling  ;D

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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2020, 02:00:03 PM »

 ;D DH does public speaking including stories from his police days! I’ve heard his talks over and over and they still make me laugh.
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2020, 02:08:20 PM »

It's great to get a giggle, something DH and I lack  :-\

I grew up in a house where books were available, board games almost compulsory on a Sunday after lunch  >:(  ::) as well as learning the piano, recorder and clarinet.  Whereas I wanted to learn the harp ........

Now that the property is in new ownership we have learned that he has a baby grand in the 'c.mas' room as well as playing other wind instruments.  So it's gone full circle, I wish Dad was here to know.  He played fiddle and Mum the organ and piano ......... Dad had a good singing voice which came out on long journeys when families travelled together in one car .......... Mum thought that she could sing  :D. Now I can't read a note nor play chopsticks  ::)
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2022, 09:04:44 PM »

The Dementia Choir and Tom Grennan at Sheffield - singing at a Festival : such power, such fun.  Bringing dementia into the public eye.  It kills more people than any other disease in the UK. 

I love and miss singing in a choir.  I do wonder sometimes if I have dementia - I would never accept a diagnosis of Alzehimers as this cannot be diagnosed until Post Mortem.  If the latter is diagnosed, less support is given to the patient. 
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2022, 08:08:41 AM »

There is increased evidence that singing increases endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. I always feel better after a singing session. It opens up the airways, which is important if you have a respiratory disease like asthma. I have to add in extra breaths in order to get to the end of a line, but who cares!
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Re: Music Heals: Music Unites
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2022, 11:57:20 PM »

I always feel better after a singing session.
I do too. Everyone else has their hands over their ears (can't imagine why, it sounds fine to me).
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