Aha! This classical music binge I’m suddenly on may have added benefits.
A doctor working with cancer patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne has teamed up with classical musicians to create a CD designed to calm and relax patients and their families.
Doctor Catherine Crock and Trio Grande have produced Hush Collection.
It is played in the hospital and is also available for sale to the public to help raise funds for research into pain management.
Dr Crock says she has noticed benefits across the board.
“We find that the children are really calm and the parents are quite relaxed,” she said.
“An added benefit is that the staff are really relaxed.
“I knew we had the right sort of music when I noticed that the staff were whistling and humming along to the music as we were doing our work.”
So the two latest purchases (Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Orchestra in The Music of Ravel and a compilation including Rhapsody in Blue, Warsaw Concerto, El Salon Mexico, Sabre Dance, and Gershwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra) will ease my pain. Good!
Gershwin: great choice! I am very partial to the Concerto in F — it never got all the hype of Rhapsody in Blue (which is also wonderful). My college orchestra played it with a pianist who has gone on to many bigger and better things.
I’ve always liked the Gershwins (both George and Ira).
I’m a little disappointed in the recording quality of the Ravel; either Bolero has long stretches of barely-audible strings or the mikes weren’t balanced well. On the other hand, for $3.99 on the Excelsior label (which I was told is the house brand for Sam Goody), what should I have expected?
Trivia question, but I think you may know it, because I forgot…
In “Soylent Green” Edward G. Robinson dies listening to a beautiful classical piece..was it “Spring”?? I don’t remember the composer…
toxiclabrat wonders:
Thanks to the indispensable IMDb, we learn that
So it wasn’t “a” beautiful classical piece, but a pastiche.
N’s work went into more detail than mine; I found some info at FilmScoreMonthly.
Yes!!
It was Beethoven’s Symphony #6 Pastoral….
Thank you both very much!!