Category: Podcast: Enhance Life with Music

• Ep. 41: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a look at how music preserves Mexican heritage and connects cultures, with Eugene Rodriguez

  

  Music can preserve culture and be a bridge between cultures. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a look at some of the ways music is used to celebrate Mexican history and traditions, as well as promote intercultural connection.

  EducationCommunity, Podcast: Enhance Life with Music

  cultural education, cultural pride, Eugene Rodriguez, intercultural understanding, Irish roots music, Latino artists, Linda Ronstadt, living traditions, Los Cenzontles, Mexican American history, Mexican culture, zydeco

• Ep. 40: Does society serve art, or does art serve society? A metropolitan opera utilizes music as a community development program teaching academic, vocational, and life skills.

  

  MN Opera’s Music Out Loud program is influenced by El Sistema, a social development program founded in Venezuela over 40 years ago. Music Out Loud is a program with a social mission that uses music, and other operatic components, in a holistic way to teach academic skills and life skills, AND enrich the community at…

  EducationCommunity, Podcast: Enhance Life with Music

  El Sistema, Hmong opera, Jamie Andrews, MN Opera, Music Out Loud, The Song Poet

• Ep.39: Parkinson’s Disease Interventions with Music; “Music provides structure for movement.” Marion Haase, M.M.

  

  Music allows information to bypass areas of the brain that have lost their ability to communicate. And as the music is removed, these new and improved functions remain, continuing to use the new route in the brain that was made possible by the music. The brain can change, learn new things, and re-route information at…

  Podcast: Enhance Life with Music, ScienceHealth

  aging process, entrainment, music therapy, music therapy research, rhythmic cuing

• Ep. 38: How does music affect my TV viewing experience? With TV production insider Steve Mulholland

  

  Imagine watching your favorite TV show without any music in its sound track. TV production insider Steve Mulholland explains the magic of music breathing life into a television story.

  Podcast: Enhance Life with Music, SportsEntertainment

  Hodder, Lost TV show, Michael Giacchino, movie sound track, TV production, Yesterday movie

• Ep. 37: Businesses turn to jazz to develop teamwork, leadership, and innovation; with Jazz Impact’s Dr. Michael Gold

  

  Jazz music has been used by General Mills, Target, IBM, The Mayo Clinic, and The United Nations to develop 21st century skills such as agile thinking, imagination, empathy, and risk-taking. How can the jazz genre inform a business model that has long prized stability and continuity?

  Business, Podcast: Enhance Life with Music

  21st century skills, Business and music, collaborative thinking, Dan Delsanto, empathy, Hudson Valley, imagination, jazz appreciation month, risk-taking

• Ep. 36: Mental Skills for Stress Reduction and Peak Performance, with author Dr. Vanessa Cornett

  

  We have a choice of where we focus our awareness, and these choices fundamentally affect how we perceive our experiences, and how we perform (whether the performance is athletic, musical, social, or otherwise). Dr. Vanessa Cornett explains that “Awareness is the most valuable resource we possess as humans… If stress isn’t what happens to us,…

  EducationCommunity, Podcast: Enhance Life with Music, ScienceHealth

  awareness, contemplative practices, mental health of musicians, mental wellness, mindfulness, peak performance, performance anxiety, resilience, sport psychology, stress management, University of St. Thomas