Whistling in the dark, hitting the right notes
Who doesn’t like music? “I’ve never encountered anyone who didn’t like music,” said Celeste Sanchez, 82, a pioneer of music therapy in the Philippines and founder of the Divine Mercy Mobile Center of Music and Arts Therapy for Special Children and Adults. Even in the womb, Sanchez said, the fetus already hears music—the rhythm and beat of the mother’s heart. “I found that music is therapeutic. In music, there’s no need to talk. The heart dictates [the words].”
November 20, 2016
