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Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute in collaboration with Lincoln Center Presents

Music ™ and the Brain :
A symposium with integrated live performances
October 30, 2009 Lincoln Center Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY

Made possible through the generosity of the Springbank Foundation Jennifer and Robert McNeil
Trademark used with the kindpermission of the 42nd Street Fund, New York, NY.

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Dear Attendees: We are delighted today to welcome you to Music and the Brain: A symposium with live performances. This unique program is designed to focus on the ways music affects and interacts with the nervous system. one of our goals for the day is to uncover ideas and perspectives about the novel field of“Neuromusic,” which studies the effect of music on the normal and abnormal physiology of the nervous system. our common passion for music gathers us here today. This Muse, Aganippe, daughter of Permessus, touches us, challenges us, and stirs us. Our brain responds to her and from their interaction comes a change. “I am Music, who in sweet accents can calm each troubled heart, and now with noble anger,now with love, can kindle the most frigid minds” (Monteverdi, L’Orfeo). Today we will have the pleasure to listen to outstanding “performers”: whether physicians, neuroscientists, music therapists, or musicians, our “performers” are movers of souls. They will touch (“haptonomize”) us with their person, their science, and their art. We are grateful to our outstanding faculty who will undoubtedlyprovide great contributions to the discussions. They will educate us in this new approach and we are honored to host them. We encourage you to take advantage of each and every session. Ask questions. Challenge the faculty. And please, join us tonight at 5:00 pm for the Final Performance: a romantic piano quartet performance by wonderful artists who went themselves through a life-transformingexperience with this music, followed by a jazz program reflecting the soul of a composer-performer and a special tribute to the great Les Paul. We promise an evening you won’t forget. Thank you so much for choosing to join us today. We hope this symposium will generate ideas and projects that will lead in the near future to other events that link music and medicine. Please don’t hesitate to ask usquestions about Cleveland Clinic’s new Arts & Medicine Institute and our different activities. We look forward to meeting and interacting with every one of you throughout this day. enjoy!

Kamal Chémali, MD Symposium Director

Neil Cherian, MD Symposium Director

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This symposium focuses on the relationship between music and the nervoussystem. It is aimed at educating physicians about this novel and unique field of “neuromusic” which studies the effect of music on the normal and abnormal physiology of the nervous system, treats certain neurological conditions using music as a therapeutic tool, and treats the neurological consequences of misuse of music. It also aims at educating physicians about the status of research in the fieldof music and the brain.

Course Directors

Kamal Chémali, MD Director, Music & Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute Neil Cherian, MD Cleveland Clinic Arts & Medicine Institute

Elizabeth Sobol-Gomez Managing Director, North and South America, IMG Artists, LLC Bob Woods Producer, Co-Founder, Telarc Records, Cleveland, ohio

Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Michael Benninger, MDChair, Head and Neck Institute

Guest Artists

Julie Albers Cellist, New York City, N.Y. Prisca Benoit Concert Pianist, Associate Professor of Piano, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Paris, France Diana Cohen violinist, Concertmaster, Kalamazoo Symphony orchestra, Cleveland Heights, ohio Patti Cohenour vocalist, Gig Harbor, Wash. Yura Lee violist, Boston, Mass. Jarrod...