In the News

Read about our internationally recognized music therapy department in the news:

USA TODAY: MUSIC PROVIDES GRACE HEALING NOTES FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Monday, June 16, 2008
As a clinical director and music therapist at Beth Israel's Louis and Lucille Armstrong Music Therapy Program, Stewart specializes in working with premature babies, children and patients with trauma — in this case, showing parents Rick Mei and Shan Liew how to use instruments that mimic heartbeats and womb sounds, as well as their own voices, to comfort their newborns. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-06-16-music-healing_N.htm


LONGTIME FRIEND TRUMPETS LEGACY OF LOUIE ARMSTRONG BY CLEM RICHARDSON
NY DAILY NEWS
Monday, September 24, 2007
NY Daily News reports on Phoebe Jacobs, longtime friend of Louis and Lucille Armstrong and now the Executive Vice President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, who carries out Armstrong’s wishes that funds benefit children. One of the programs Jacobs supports is The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Music Therapist and Director Dr. Joanne Loewy states, "Phoebe holds the spirit and love of humanity - the same qualities that are evident in Louis' music. Her support of others, especially those involved in jazz and people committed to helping others, is part of her everyday mode of operation. We have been blessed to have her vision, support and connections - which forge the science and art of music and medicine."
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_longtime_friend_trumpets_legacy_of_louie.html

GRAMMY: The Recording Academy in Your Community, Fall 2007
Sources of Inspiration by Laurel Fishman
The GRAMMY Foundation reports on the accomplishments of the Asthma Initiative Program at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine.
http://www.grammy.com

Indy Kids, Issue #8 March/April 2007
Music soothes asthma sufferers by Abby Gross
Indy Kids, a free paper for kids, writes up The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine’s Asthma Initiative Program (AIP).
http://www.indykids.net/issues/pdf/indykids_iss08.pdf

Bookofjoe, February 4, 2007
BehindTheMedspeak: It hurts to play beautifully — Why classical musicians are rarely at 100%
The site has a reprint of Stuart Isacoff's January 31, 2007 Wall Street Journal article that discusses pain and disability are routine accompaniments to playing an instrument and includes interviews with The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine’s Music & Health Clinic directors Dr. Joanne Loewy and Dr. Stephan Quentzel.
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/02/stuart_isacoffs.html

Therapytimes.com: Music Therapy Blog
Therapytimes.com is an award winning milieu-based web site. Click here to visit Joanne Loewy's bi-monthly blog for music therapists.

7Online: Eyewitness News
Music therapy for young asthma sufferers by Dr. Jay Adlersberg
Dr. Jay Adlersberg covers our Asthma Initiative Program, providing outreach music therapy in New York City public schools. To read the transcript and watch the video, click here.

The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday January 31, 2007
Classical Musicians Suffer for Their Art by Stuart Isacoff
Director Joanne Loewy and Dr. Stephan Quentzel are interviewed about the holistic approach of the Music and Health Clinic for Musicians and Performing Artists to treat pain, disability and performance-related ailments. Click here to read the interview.

Jazz88 WBGO.ORG
Jazz & Health Working together by Jon Kalish
Jon Kalish of WGBO attended the opening of the Music & Health Clinic on September 19, 2006 at Beth Israel Medical Center . Hear his interview at http://www.wbgo.org/news/journal/archive.asp?date=9/22/2006

Yamaha Corporation of America
Yamaha Donates Recorders to Beth Israel's Music & Health Clinic – Instruments to Provide Therapeutic Benefits to Patients with Pulmonary and Heart Diseases
Yamaha Corporation of America and West Music recently donated 200 recorders to New York City 's Beth Israel Medical Center 's Music & Health Clinic, part of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine. "With scientific support for music therapy as a viable form of treatment, providing our recorders in an effort to advance therapy for those with chronic pulmonary disorders is part of Yamaha's overall wellness mission," states Roger Eaton, Director of Marketing, Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral Division. Click here to see the full article on the web.

WNYC New York Public Radio
Music Is Medicine for Kids with Asthma, by Pamela Renner
WNYC reporter Pamela Renner visited with music therapist Mechelle Chestnut of The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine's Asthma Initiative Program. Read the article and listen to the radio broadcast at http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/57949.

US News & World Report
The Fine Art of Healing the Sick
US News & World Report article on music therapy in hospitals across the country features The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Read the full article at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060605/5art.htm.

Modern Healthcare, January 9, 2006
Soothing body and soul: N.Y. hospital's music therapy gives patients something to sing about, by Charles S. Lauer VP-Publishing, Editorial Director
Lauer writes about the legacy of Louis Armstrong in his support of the music therapy program at Beth Israel Medical Center. Click here to read article .

CBS Sunday Morning
Musical Healing with Dan Rather
CBS Sunday morning aired a segment on music therapy in hospitals, featuring Glenn Schifano, trained at Beth Israel Medical Center, at Schneider Children's Hospital in Long Island and including clips of music therapy at Beth Israel Medical Center. Read the summary article at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/16/sunday/main1501200.shtml

Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2005
The Healing Power of Jazz, by Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff sounds the trumpet on Beth Israel Medical Center 's Louis and Lucille Armstrong Music Therapy Program. (Info for link missing)

POZ: Health, Life & HIV, July 2006
In the Key of Life - score one for HIV music therapy, by Michael Smith
Reporter Michael Smith visited with music therapists Kristen Stewart and Marcela Lichtensztejn of The Louis & Lucille Armstrong Music Therapy Program at Beth Israel Medical Center to experience music therapy first-hand. He writes about his own experience as well as observing a music therapy session with a patient. http://www.poz.com/articles/751_5127.shtml

WebMD Medical News at Fox News.com
More Hospitals Healing with the Help of Music Therapy
Dr. Joanne Loewy, Director of The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, is interviewed by WebMD of Fox News on the use of music therapy in hospitals. http://foxnews.webmd.com/content/article/29/1728_63245.htm?src=rss_foxnews

International Council for Caring Communities
UN Policymakers and Leading Medical Practitioners Explore Alternative Medical Treatments to Promote Global Health and Productivity
The United Nations hosted a symposium on the interrelationship of Music, Technology, Culture and Healthcare including Beth Israel's music therapy director Dr. Joanne Loewy, MT-BC, in the roster of international music therapy specialists discussing ways to harness scientifically documented, cost-effective and accessible methods such as music therapy to contribute to global wellness. Read more on http://www.international-iccc.org/Rusk%20press%20release.htm

Fibromyalgia Aware, Oct 2003 – Jan 2004 Vol. 5
The Mind Body Connection, by Elisabeth Deffner
Deffner writes about alternate paths to symptom management, including music therapy as discussed with Dr. Joanne Loewy of Beth Israel Medical Center. (Info for link missing) 

GEO, November 2003
Macht musik den menschen besser?
This German magazine includes a special feature on music therapy featuring Beth Israel Medical Center 's program director Dr. Joanne Loewy.
http://www.geo.de/GEO/kultur/gesellschaft/1644.html?p=3

Grammy Magazine, Spring-Summer 2000, pp. 44-46.
Musician, Heal Thyself, by Laurel Fishman
Grammy Magazine writes about how the power of music continues to gain acceptance in alternative physical and psychological therapies. Beth Israel Medical Center 's music therapy director Dr. Joanne Loewy is one of several prominent leaders in the field of music and medicine interviewed on how music therapy enhances medical care. (Info for link missing)

American Academy of Pediatrics News, December 1999
Music therapy significant helper in healing, soothing children, by Joanne Loewy, D.A., MT-BC.
Dr. Loewy writes about research and practice of music therapy in pediatrics in the official newsmagazine of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Research and music therapy interventions addressing sedation, immune system function, pain and support of NICU infants are reviewed. (Info for link missing)

Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, Vol 18 No.1 July 1999, 75 - 77
Music Therapy for Children's Pain, by Rose Ann Indelicato, RN, CS, ANP, OCN
In this book review of Music Therapy and Pediatric Pain, edited by Joanne V. Loewy, Indelicato concludes the book is a helpful reference for health care professionals interested in music therapy, including conceptual approaches to using music, the role of a music therapist in a multidisciplinary team, the positive influence of music as a complementary technique to pharmacological treatments and examples of music and pain management. (Info for link missing)

Music Therapy and Medicine: A Satellite Broadcast Video
The work of music therapist Jeanette Rodrigue and Dr Stephen Heaton, MD, from Beth Israel's HIV program and Dr. Joanne Loewy's research studies were featured in this two-hour program originally aired nationally on April 27th, 1999 to educate doctors, nurses and other health care professionals of the benefits of music therapy in a medical/hospital setting.
http://www.musictherapy.org/products/products.html

Our Town, April 29, 1998
Music Therapy Has Important Uses in Pediatric Medicine, by Loren Schwartz
This article discusses music therapy with pediatric patients. Beth Israel Medical Center's music therapy director Dr. Joanne Loewy is interviewed on the music therapy and discusses current research studies that are building scientific proof of music therapy's benefits. (Info for link missing)

Newsday, Tuesday Oct 14, 1997
Melodic Medication: Music seems to work magic with pain, poor memory by Sharon McDonnell
McDonnell writes about music therapy at local New York programs including Beth Israel Medical Center and Beth Abraham Health Services. Dr. Joanne Loewy is interviewed about the gate control theory of pain, clinical music therapy techniques for pain, sedation, treatment of asthma and coping with hospitalization.

Daily News, Sunday January 8, 1995
Instrumental Medicine: Through music therapy, patients march to the beat of a different drummer, by Karen Avenso.
Daily News writer Karen Avenso writes about music therapy in two New York hospitals, Beth Israel Medical Center and Beth Abraham Health Services. Avenso writes of music therapy gaining credibility in the scientific community and the 1991 Senate hearing on music therapy which have been followed by grants to music therapists. (Info for link missing)

For Questions and Further Information
For questions, reprints and further information about music therapy or referrals for yourself, your loved ones or your patients, please call (212) 420-2704 or email info@musicandmedicine.org.