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Inmates perform original compositions following classical music workshop, part of cultural effort in New York City jails
Musicians play, for coronavirus patients, everything from Bach to the Beatles amid beeping ICU machines.
PMHU Co-Director Andrew Janss is interviewed on the BBC World News about the one-on-one digital concerts that PMHU is giving in hospitals across the country for isolated COVID patients
An I.C.U. doctor felt despair at how little could be done for the sick. Soon, she had musicians playing over the phone in hospital rooms.
Guilford has always held a special place in Molly Carr’s life. She has fond memories of her family from all over the country coming together at the home of her grandparents, Dick and Sally Carr, who lived in Guilford for 60 years. Molly Carr grew up to be a musician, a professional violist, but after an accident, she was unsure if she would recover enough to continue her professional career.
Violist Molly Carr, of Project Music Heals Us, made her New York solo debut at Lincoln Center. However, it was not until she was moved from New York City to Guilford to live with her grandparents after injuring her left hand that she found her passion: bringing the healing power of music to those who are in most need.
or many talented musicians, Molly Carr’s enviable position on the Viola Faculty of The Juilliard School, Precollege Division (New York) and Academia Ivan Galamian (Malaga, Spain), as well as with Solera Quartet (quartet in residence, University of Notre Dame), would put a very satisfying check beside some lofty career goals.
Project: Music Heals Us brings music to those who need it most. You can see Molly Carr and her friends from New York City perform an unusual style of chamber music on November 17. I loved them, but I love even more what she does with the proceeds. Ticket sales directly subsidize additional “healing concerts” played in local nursing homes, hospitals, hospices, homeless shelters, and prisons.