Full Concert
Music and Healing
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1h 28m
Led by Sarah Hicks, Music and Healing explores the intersection of music, anxiety and well-being. Part concert, part conversation featuring experts and musicians, the program includes a new work for orchestra inspired by audience responses to their own experiences with managing anxiety and finding inner peace. Plus, singer-songwriter Chastity Brown, whose music has touched on the topic of mental health, will joins the Orchestra for a set of new songs.
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Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10...
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is riddled with despair. Its manic Allegro includes jagged edges, clashing chords and rhythms crashing forward. “Now that,” conductor Sarah Hicks said at the conclusion of the work, “is what anxiety feels like to me.”
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Dianne Hartman's The Music of Mental ...
Dianne Hartman has been a psychiatrist and social worker in Michigan for more than 30 years. As a musician and composer, she has written works that address mental health issues in an effort to promote understanding and empathy around the stigma that her patients face. The Orchestra performed the ...
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Molly Joyce's Serenity
What does anxiety feel like to you? What does feeling at peace in your body feel like? How do you move from feeling anxious to comfort? These were the questions that the Orchestra posed to its social media followers. Their responses were integrated into a new commission by composer Molly Joyce.
