MUSIC AND MIND Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

Five excellent voice pros--three women and two men--join the famed soprano Renée Fleming to perform this fascinating deep dive into the power of music. The six voices alternatively narrate whole chapters, each of them sounding in perfect harmony with their subject matter and the positive energy of the people working in this field. Artists, therapists, educators, and music researchers wrote the essays that were collected by Fleming. The writers as a group are uniformly eloquent and persuasive as they explain music's connection to various aspects of human functioning. They offer substantial reasons for healthcare gatekeepers to promote the use of music for healing physical and mental health maladies, and for making everyone more curious about what music can do for the experience of living. T.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2024]