Maestro Kent Nagano and MSO bring joy to sick children by Daniela Simkova

Music, a word known to everyone, means a joy, hope, passion, and love. Through music you can escape to a world never known to anyone else except you. But have you ever thought about music as a heeling component? "Healing begins, it's been said, when you have a sense of hope and when you have belief that there is a future,"said Maestro Kent Nagano, a music director of The Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Kent Nagano along with MSO started a music therapy for children at Montreal Hospital. They performed a classy interpretation of the songs best known to children, which are The Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Jingle Bells. "Music is really something that heals a lot and that's what I try to do with the children: bring them music and bring out their own music through their own creativity," stated Pascal Comeau, a hospital's director of music therapy. Music therapy helps to sick children forget about their pain and suffering from the disease. The music therapy supporters thinks that music can decrease some of the mental or even the physical symptoms of various illnesses. Since the music is the special reflection of a human being, it can do a miracle. Music is something what shouldn't be held in the back but we should share this incredible melodies. Maestro Kent Nagano said: "We wanted to make sure that when we make music, we just don't make it alone inside the walls of a concert hall, that we share our music outside the walls as well, and with as many people as we can reach."

by Daniela Simkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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