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Multi-platinum-selling,
five-time Grammy-nominated entertainer Michael Feinstein
will host and headline a celebration of music’s therapeutic
power to heal when the Institute for Music and Neurologic
Function’s Music Has Power AwardsÔ
return to
Feinstein’s at Loews Regency – The Nightclub of New York
on September 7, 2011.
The Music Has Power
Awards, generously underwritten by BNY Mellon Wealth
Management, are presented annually by the Institute for
Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) to honor those
individuals in the arts, sciences and business communities
whose work contributes to the advancement of vital and often
groundbreaking music therapy research, development and
programs.
The 2011 recipients of
the Music Has Power Awards are the acclaimed filmmaker Jim
Kohlberg and the renowned neurologist Dr. Steven A. Sparr.
“We honor film
director/producer Jim Kohlberg for his most recent work,
‘The Music Never Stopped,’ because it advanced greater
public awareness of the power of music therapy to reconnect
people with serious brain injuries and degenerative
neurological diseases with their friends and loved ones,”
explains IMNF Executive Director Dr. Concetta Tomaino.
“Thanks to Jim Kohlberg’s film, more people than ever before
are aware of the breakthrough music-based therapies and
treatments that are available should they or their loved
ones need them.”
Kohlberg’s film “The
Music Never Stopped” is based on a case study by Dr. Oliver
Sacks (and a case that took place at Beth Abraham),
and chronicles the estranged relationship between a father
and his brain-injured son and the extraordinary power of
music to reconnect the two.
Dr. Steven A. Sparr is a
distinguished neurologist whose clinical research in stroke
and behavioral neurology placed special focus on the
neurology of music. Dr. Sparr has served as the director of
the neurology of music program at the Academy of Neurology
annual meetings for several years running, and has lectured
on the subject both here in the United States and
internationally.
A member of the IMNF
Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Sparr is also a founding
member and director of neuro-rehabilitation at the Stern
Stroke Center at Montefiore Medical Center and the director
of Neurology Clerkship at Albert Einstein College of
Medicine.
“Dr. Sparr’s research,
his writings and his lectures all serve to build greater
awareness and appreciation among his fellow neurologists and
the broader medical community of the power and efficacy of
music therapy to help heal people with stroke, traumatic
brain injuries and degenerative neurological diseases such
as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other
dementias,” states Dr. Tomaino. “The more doctors are aware
of this therapy, the more scientists are inspired to
continue their music/brain research, the greater advances we
can make and the greater the number of people we can help.”
The 2011 Music Has Power
Awards start at 6 p.m. and will feature a live performance
by Michael Feinstein. As a noted singer and pianist,
Feinstein gives more than 200 classic pop music shows a year
and is nationally recognized for celebrating America’s
popular song heritage. His new PBS concert special, The
Sinatra Legacy, is currently airing across the country;
and the companion CD will be released in October.
Through this celebration, funds raised will
support music therapy programs, along with clinical and
scientific research. Previous recipients of the Music Has
Power Awards include Dr. Oliver Sacks, Mickey Hart, Remo
Belli, Moby, and Henry Z. Steinway.
For
tickets or sponsorship information please contact:
Teresa DePace at (718)
519-5880, fax (718) 519-4240 or e-mail
TDePace@bethabe.org
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To download photos of the honorees, please
visit
http://www.imnf.org/news/readmore/mhp-awards-2011/press-releases.
About the
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF):
The Institute for
Music and Neurologic Function is a not-for-profit, 501(c)
(3) organization and a member of Beth Abraham Family of
Health Services. Founded in 1995, the IMNF is driven by 35
years of clinical observations on the actual effects of
music on different types of physical and neurological
trauma. Directed by renowned music therapist Dr. Concetta
M. Tomaino, with medical guidance from distinguished
neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, its distinctive setting allows
researchers to not only apply their theories, but to follow
patient rehabilitation in the long term.
The Institute actively
collaborates with researchers and practitioners at other
leading organizations to advance world progress in
understanding and applying the power of music to promote
healing and wellness. Some of the Institute’s most
promising research
has been in the areas
of music and language, memory, and recovery from nerve
injury – leading to groundbreaking discoveries as to how
music therapy can heal. For more information, visit
www.imnf.org .
About Beth
Abraham Family of Health Services:
The Beth Abraham Family
of Health Services is a not-for-profit organization and
regional leader in providing and coordinating residential,
home and community-based long-term care for chronically ill
and disabled adults throughout the New York metropolitan
area. Continuing care services include residential health
care, sub-acute medical care, rehabilitation, home care,
HIV/AIDS home care, comprehensive care management, adult day
health care and independent housing facilities for the
elderly and disabled. For more information visit
www.bethabe.org .
About
Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Feinstein’s at Loews
Regency, the Nightclub of New York, was named “Best of New
York” by New York Magazine and heralded as “an
invaluable New York institution” by the New York Post.
The club was created by Michael Feinstein and the Tisch
family to provide an elegant return to the classic era of
New York nightlife. Since it opened in 1999, the club has
presented the top talents of pop and jazz, including
Rosemary Clooney, Steve Tyrell, Barbara Cook, Glen Campbell,
Diahann Carroll, Jane Krakowski, Lea Michele, Cyndi Lauper,
Jason Mraz and Alan Cumming.
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