The 1000 patients are living with Alzheimer's, ALS, or dementia or healing from spinal cord injuries, burns, or brain injuries. We have tried to match our caregiver musicians with their areas of expertise, in order to give them and their colleagues even more insight and meaning to the experience. One pediatrician is taking her music into a NICU, an oncologist is offering music in a hospice.
At the performances, our audiences will not be regarded, as they so often are, as patients with disease states. Instead they will be audience members, music-lovers, and arts appreciators. Equally, the musicians of the Longwood Symphony will not be regarded, as they so often are, as doctors, therapists, and scientists. Instead, they will be regarded as musicians, performers, arts healers. When words, or medicine, fail, there is still music.
These are the facilities we will be visiting, with a highlight on some of the groups, seen here rehearsing at the Boston Latin School
This group will be visiting
Group 1: Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care at Height's Crossing
Albert Chow, violin
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sherman Jia, violin
Student, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Howard Hughes Research Fellow, Broad
Jennifer Grucza, viola
Senior Software Engineer, Digital Advisor
Martha Davis, J.D., cello
Northeastern University School of Law
Stephanie Wingfield, J.D., cello
Wingfield Audio Inc.
Mark Gebhardt, M.D., Ph.D. , clarinet
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, HMS; Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, BIDMC, CHB, DFCI
Stephen Wright, M.D., bassoon
Chief of Medicine, Faulkner, BWH, TUSM, HMS
Vanessa Gardner, french horn
Concerts Manager, MIT
I am looking forward to seeing the reaction of the audience participants to the performance, which for them, I suspect, will be just as much visual as auditory. Watching players as they prepare to make an entrance, and the sound that comes out from each instrument, might be the more accessible part of the event for certain patients. -Steve Wright
This group will be visiting
Flute instructor, Wayland Public Schools
Jeffrey Berman, M.D., clarinet
Prof. of Medicine, BUSM, Pulmonary/Critical Care/Allergy, BMC, VA Medical Center
Janice D. Walker, R.N., M.B.A.
Division of Medicine, BIDMC
Amy Seibel, bassoon
I am very excited about performing next weekend at a skilled nursing facility! I will be playing a variety of works with long time friends and a new friend (flutist Tobi-Ann Kocher; my wife, Jan Walker, a researcher in the Section of General Internal Medicine at BIDMC on piano; along with new friend Amy Seibel, a bassoonist). Preparing for this performance has allowed me to play great music (much of it I have never played before), while allowing us the opportunity to share our music with others who might not otherwise have the opportunity to go to a concert. As a physician I interact with sick people every day, but sharing the healing properties of music allows me to communicate and heal using techniques quite different from the ones I use in my "day job". Dr. Jeffrey Berman
This group will be visiting
Parmenter Hospice
and
Mabel Chan, violin
Data Manager, Neurology Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer Chang, violin
8th year, M.D.-Ph.D. program, HMS
Angela Moss, M.D. viola
Surgical Fellow, MGH, HMS
Gregory Crist, cello
Computer Graphics
Complete list of healthcare facilities hosting LSO on Call performances
Barbara McInnis House
Boston Medical Center
Elizabeth Seton Residence
Golden Living Center-Chetwynde
Hearthstone Alzheimer's Care at Height's Crossing
Hearthstone Alzheimer's at New Horizons
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
Norumbega Point
Parmenter Hospice
Sarah Care Adult Day Health Services
Sancta Maria Nursing Facility
Sherrill House
Shriner’s Hospital for Children
South Cove Manor
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
The Stone Institute
Waban Health and Rehab Center &
Wingate Brighton
