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A Healing Song

From Project Stitch | 05:29

Jason Peacemaker shares his intimate story about HIV through a healing song. This is contrasted by random people's reactions to the question, What would you do if you were diagnosed with HIV?

Default-piece-image-0 Jason Peacemaker, an aboriginal singer and song writer got diagnosed with HIV; he was struck by this reality and used his voice and music to reflect on his life. In contrast, through interviews on the streets of Vancouver, random people express their feelings and reactions when asked to imagine themselves put in the same situation.

RN Documentary: Musica Humana

From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 29:30

Musicians and doctors in Denmark compose and use music in hospitals.

Rnlogoenglish_small One of the worst things about going in to hospital is the fact that it’s so unfamiliar; white walls, strange machines and sick people. And if you are going to have an operation, you’re probably also very worried… Well a group of doctors and musicians in Denmark have realised just how scary this whole procedure is for many of us. So they’ve formed a research project called ‘MUSICA HUMANA’ – which involves music specially composed to relax nervous patients, calm busy nurses and bring deeply anaesthetised patients back to reality. Based on the rhythm of a human heart – and woven together with the familiar sounds of the natural world, the music of Danish Composer Niels Eje has astounded even the most cynical of medics by calming the heart-beat of patients undergoing intensive cardiac procedures. And subject to rigorous scientific testing, the sound environment created by ‘MUSICA HUMANA’ has been proven to help patients recover better, feel less pain and have a much experience of their stay in hospital. Anne Blair Gould visits the musicians and scientists behind ‘MUSICA HUMANA’ and asks how this music helps in the healing process…

Healing

From Stanford Storytelling Project | 58:49

For most of human history, healing has meant restoring a sense of wholeness to a person, a relationship, or a community. In this episode, we’re investigating how we heal amidst the chaos of our darkest moments.

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We’ve come to think of healing in mechanical terms, as repairing something broken, like fixing a flat tire. But for most of human history healing has meant more than repairing the body. Healing has meant restoring a sense of wholeness to a person—or even a relationship or community. In today’s show we’ll hear two stories that explore this older sense of healing. First, a Bay Area woman diagnosed with breast cancer finds healing through a complementary medicine modality at Stanford Hospital called Healing Touch. Second, a Stanford student living with an incurable disease finds healing in an encounter with the ocean and one of its creatures. How do we heal when our bodies are irrevocably changed?

Host: Preet Kaur

Producers: Bonnie Swift, Christy Hartman, Taylor Shoolery, Preet Kaur, Alka Nath, Will Rogers, Julie Morrison, Mallory Smith, Natacha Ruck, Claire Schoen, Jonah Willihnganz

Featuring: Preet Kaur, Carolyn Helmke, Catherine Palter, Melissa Anderson, Rosa Fuerte, Marilyn Getas-Byrne, Anne Proctor, Laura Pexton, Margot Baker, David Wolf, Maggie Burgett, Maria Cacho, Katie Talamantez, Elizabeth Helms, Diane Wardell, Sue Kegal, Jim Batterson, Margaret Schink, and Mallory Smith

Release Date: 22 April 2015


Image via The Archeological Museum of Piraeus

 

Story 1: It Slows Way Down

When two of Carolyn Helmke’s friends got cancer, she knew she had to get a mammogram. We follow Carolyn’s journey through cancer treatment and her experience of Healing Touch at Stanford Hospital’s Center for Cancer Supportive Care Services. How does Carolyn find healing, not just from cancer, but from the trauma of fighting it?

Producers: Christy Hartman, Bonnie Swift, Taylor Shoolery, Preet Kaur, Alka Nath, Will Rogers, Julie Morrison, Claire Schoen, Jonah Willihnganz

Featuring: Carolyn Helmke, Catherine Palter, Melissa Anderson, Rosa Fuerte, Marilyn Getas-Bryne, Anne Proctor, Laura Pexton, Margot Baker, David Wolf, Maggie Burgett, Maria Cacho, Katie Talamantez, Elizabeth Helms, Diane Wardell, Sue Kegal, Jim Batterson, Margaret Schink

Special Thanks: Nina Weil, Nina Foushee, Josh Hoyt, Rachel Hamburg, Mallory Smith, Natacha Ruck, Eileen Williams, Rosie La Puma

Original Music: Man of Suit

image via flickr

 

Story 2: Salted Wounds

Mallory Smith was born with cystic fibrosis, an incurable disease with a median life expectancy in the late 30’s. The most serious complication of the disease is a vicious cycle of chronic infection, inflammation and scarring in the lungs that often leads to respiratory failure. As Mallory battles her illness through college, she comes to realize that, metaphorically speaking, the planet is diseased too. But nature speaks out through its own set of symptoms, unsettling signs that grow louder and clearer by the year.

 

Producer: Mallory Smith

Music: The Album Leaf (Blank Pages, A Day in the Life, Perro, Summer Fog, Shine), The American Dollar (Anything You Synthesize), This Will Destroy You (I Believe in Your Victory), Maneli Jamal (Us Against Them), Antoine Dufour & Tommy Gauthier (Solitude), and Josh Woodward (Together on Our Own)

Image via One Love

An earlier version of this piece aired on Green Grid Radio

Breaking Into Song

From Stanford Storytelling Project | Part of the State of the Human series | 58:57

Sometimes, the only way to voice our feelings is to break into song.

Breaking_into_song_pic_small Sometimes, the only way to voice our feelings is to break into song. We’re not just talking about singing, we’re talking about that surprising moment - when melody, lyrics, and pure emotion swell inside us. When we have no choice but to open our mouths and let our voices soar. In that moment, our own voice escapes us and ventures into the world with what seems like a mind of its own. We hear ourselves like we never have. Others hear us too, and the results can be life-changing - for the better and for the worse. In our first story, we find out what really happens when you open your heart and break into song for the girl who may (or may not be) the one. In our second story, we explore what it takes to lend your voice to others, and break into song for them, whatever the consequences may be. In our third story, we go to France, to find out what happens when two lifelong enemies break into song together.

Wu Man - Pipa player

From Dmae Lo Roberts | 04:50

Famed pipa virtuoso Wu Man in her own words and her music

Pipa_small Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa virtuoso and cited by the Los Angeles Times as 'the artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World.' Independent Producer Dmae Roberts produced this profile of Wu Man in her own words as she rehearses for a concert in Portland, OR. More Bio info: Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied with Lin, Shicheng, Kuang, Yuzhong, Chen, Zemin, and Liu, Dehai at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She currently lives in Boston where she was selected as a Bunting Fellow at Redcliffe Institute of Harvard University. Wu Man was selected by Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize in music and communication. She is also the first artist from China to have performed at the White House with the noted cellist with whom she now performs in the Silk Road Project. Since moving to the USA, she has continued to champion new works and have inspired pipa literature from composers Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Zhou Long and many others.

Bayard Rustin: Who Is This Man?

From Al Letson | Part of the State of the Re:Union: Season One series | 53:53

Discover the words and wisdom of an unsung hero of the Civil Rights movement who changed the course of American history.

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Bayard Rustin: Who Is This Man?

Host: Al Letson
Producer: Tina Antolini

Description: MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech has become the shorthand of the Civil Rights Movement - but we might never have heard it, if it were not for another man, who’s largely been forgotten by history: Bayard Rustin. In this program hour, we explore the life and legacy of Mr. Rustin, a black, gay, Quaker who brought Gandhian non-violent protest to the Civil Rights movement in America.

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Bayard Rustin: Who Is This Man? is available on PRX without charge to all public radio stations, and may be aired an unlimited number of times prior to January 31, 2017. The program may be streamed live on station websites but not archived. Excerpting is permitted for promotional purposes only. 

State of the Re:Union is presented by WJCT and distributed by PRX.  Major funding for the State of the Re:Union comes from CPB, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Delores Barr Weaver Fund at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. 

Thanks for your consideration of State of the Re:Union with Al Letson. 

 

Navajo Musician Clarence Clearwater: Music Heals

From AIR | Part of the Why Music Matters: Stories about the Power of Music series | 03:06

Navajo Musician, Clarence Clearwater: Music heals. A powerful story about how music can help us overcome the pain of the past.

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California Native Drum Class Heals Old Wounds

From Anne Hoffman | 03:37

California has the largest American Indian population of any state. Most of the Native Americans here moved from distant homelands like South Dakota or New Mexico, creating something like an American Indian diaspora. In Napa, California, a group of Native people from all tribes come together in a drum class to reconnect with their traditions and heal from past traumas.

Drum_circle_small California has the largest American Indian population of any state. Most of the Native Americans here moved from distant homelands like South Dakota or New Mexico, creating something like an American Indian diaspora. In Napa, California, a group of Native people from all tribes come together in a drum class to reconnect with their traditions and heal from past traumas.

Crossing East Music Featre: Violinist Aishu Venkataraman

From Dmae Lo Roberts | Part of the Crossing East - Asian American History series series | 04:58

Profile of 13-year-old prodigy and her musician family

Aishu_small Aishu, born Aishwarya Venkataraman in Northridge, California, grew up surrounded by music and musicians. Born into a family of rich musical ancestry on February 25, 1993, Aishu began her training in violin at the very early age of two-and-a-half. Aishu, started on a 1/8th size violin at a very tender age of two and a half. At age four, she started learning the Carnatic or South Indian style of music under the tutelage of the eminent violin maestro T. N. Krishnan. Her father, Vinod (V.R.) Venkataraman a native of Bombay India is a professional Mridangam (South Indian percussion drum) player and a professor of Applied Mathematics. Vinod has served as an integral collaborator with many legendary Indian performers including acclaimed musicians like Professor T. N. Krishnan's, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Gottovadyam Ravi Kiran and Flutist Shri K.S. Gopalakrishnan and has performed with jazz greats like Hubert Laws, Stephane Grapelli, Larry Coryell, Alice Coltrane, and Emil Richards. Together father and daughter tour in a group called Divine Strings. For more info go to divinestrings.com. This piece was produced as a newshole feature for the Crossing East Asian American history series.