Hold the Salt, Please?
New York City health officials have passed regulations on calories and trans fat. Now they are working on reducing the salt that New Yorkers ingest.The city health department plans to release...
View ArticleMelodic Intonation Therapy
A recent study from the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows that a handful of people who can't speak following a stroke have begun talking again--through music.Shirley Wang,...
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Music Helps Vets Control Symptoms of PTSD
The khaki colored Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic in southern New Jersey doesn’t look extraordinary from the outside. The parking lot’s too small and the building isn’t impressive either—just a simple...
View ArticleCity Awards $657 Million to WTC Workers
A settlement has finally been reached in a long court battle between the City of New York and workers who claim they became ill from dust at Ground Zero.The city has agreed to as much as $657 million...
View ArticleVillazón Returns to Vienna's Stage
Opera Tenor Rolando Villazón returned to the stage in Austria last night, after recovering from surgery he had to remove a cyst on his vocal cords. The Associated Press reports that the 38-year-old...
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Keeping Vocal Cords Humming
Susan Graham’s brown eyes are a little red this week. That’s because it’s pollen season in Houston, where the Grammy award-winning mezzo-soprano is learning eight arias and the rest of the leading role...
View ArticleProgram Allows Artists to Trade Creative Services for Healthcare
Working artists in New York are twice as likely to be living without adequate health insurance as those who make their living by other means.And after health care funding was slashed by $775 million...
View ArticleNY Lawmakers Say Stalled 9/11 Health Bill Gaining Momentum
New York lawmakers Kirsten Gillibrand, Carolyn Maloney and Anthony Weiner came to Ground Zero today to announce progress toward getting a stalled 9/11 health bill passed.A hearing has finally been...
View ArticleJudge Signs Settlement in WTC Health Case
Lawyers for the responders to the September 11 attacks will be back in court today to try to strike a deal that would end a seven-year legal battle over the toxic fallout caused by the collapse of the...
View ArticleHow Music Therapy Helps Ease Clinical Depression
There's more and more research indicating that listening to music can help patients manage all kinds of pain--from clinical depression to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to Parkinson's Disease....
View ArticleCan Boys' Choirs Survive?
The angelic voices of boys' choirs have been celebrated for millennia, but in recent years, choirs have been hit hard by sex abuse scandals and declining revenues. Findings from a Danish study cited...
View ArticleTop Five Studies on Classical Music and Health
Earlier this month, the German transportation minister released his Adagio in the Automobile CD, a compilation of the slow movements of Mozart piano concertos. He hopes the album will reduce aggressive...
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Understanding Opera Singers and their Health
I know, and am grateful, that many opera singers read my articles. This one, about health, and the next one, about money, are for them. I hope that non-singers will read these pieces to become more...
View ArticleHaving Trouble Breathing? Try Singing
LONDON (AP) -- In a third-floor room of a London hospital with orange and white walls draped with Tibetan prayer flags, roughly a dozen people gathered recently to perform vocal exercises and sing...
View ArticlePlacido Domingo Health Update: Improvement Expected
MADRID (AP) -- Opera singer Placido Domingo says he expects his health to improve soon, after he was admitted to a Madrid hospital with a blockage in an artery of the lungs.Domingo has canceled six...
View ArticlePlacido Domingo Leaves Hospital After Embolism
MADRID (AP) -- Opera singer Placido Domingo says he has left a hospital in Madrid after spending five days there recovering from a lung artery blockage.Domingo said "Going home" on his Twitter account,...
View ArticleTop 5 Figure Skating Routines Featuring Classical Music
Sports and music are awkward bedfellows, often competing against each other for attention in the media or events such as the Super Bowl halftime show.However, the two come together seamlessly in figure...
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Voices of Experience: How Singers Protect Their Most Important Asset
April 16 is World Voice Day and my topic for this article is what I have learned about keeping voices healthy. I am almost at the end of an intense period of travel and public speaking in which my own...
View ArticleAustralian Opera Company Cancels Carmen Over Fears it Promotes Smoking
POLL: How should opera companies handle Carmen's smoking?The West Australia Opera has said it will not program Bizet's Carmen in the next two years, over fears that it would threaten a $200,000...
View ArticleSurgeons Perform Better with Music, Study Finds
When surgeons listen to music in the operating room, they're more efficient at closing incisions, and their technique improves, a small study has found.Researchers asked 15 plastic surgery residents at...
View ArticleOliver Sacks, Neurologist and Author Who Explored Music's Impact on Brain,...
Oliver Sacks, the British neurologist and best-selling author who chronicled music's relationship to a range of conditions including hallucinations, dementia and Alzheimer's, died Sunday at his home in...
View ArticleHow Vocal Health Can Make or Break a Singer
As March arrives, singers transition from wintry health concerns (flu, sore throats, colds) to those of springtime (even more flu, sore throats, colds, but also allergies). People who attend opera are...
View ArticlePanel: Fixes to Obamacare Stalled in Divided Congress
A top federal health official in New Jersey said on Thursday that there was only so much she could do to improve upon the Affordable Care Act without the help of Congress.Jackie Cornell-Bechelli, the...
View ArticleHow the Sound of New York City has Changed During the COVID-19 Lockdown
A little bird tweeting merrily away at the crack of dawn woke me up the other morning. In midtown Manhattan. That never happens. The morning is usually signaled by the slowly rising volume of the city...
View ArticleRAMADAN KARIM – Memories from Cairo by WQXR's Nimet Habachy
“Ramadan Karim.” May the Holy Month of Ramadan be generous to you. That is how I have been greeting Muslim friends in the past few weeks, even while we are all engulfed by a pandemic. We’ve all had to...
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‘I tried to speak, then the world went dark’
This article was originally published on You.co.uk on August 16 2020 and we are re-publishing it here courtesy of YOU Magazine. © 2017 YOU Magazine. Only six months ago, a terrifying bleed on the...
View ArticleMusical Wings To Transport The Soul
As I’ve sat isolated in my Manhattan apartment since the COVID-19 lockdown began, I’ve sometimes thought about the astronauts, current and past, who’ve spent extended periods of time in space. Scott...
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