The Hospice Singer
Author : Larry Duberstein
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781578690855
On the Breath of Song
Author : Kathy Leo
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780996971942
Book Description
Hallowell, founded by Kathy Leo of Vermont, is a hospice choir connected to Brattleboro Area Hospice. Hallowell has served as a model for many other hospice choirs formed as part of this growing movement. Kathy continues to co-lead workshops in the practice of bedside singing for the dying. She also works part time as a care coordinator for Brattleboro Area Hospice. Prior to her work with the dying, Kathy was a midwife and childbirth educator.
Music at the End of Life
Author : Jennifer L. Hollis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0313362211
Book Description
A practicing music thanatologist provides an insider's history of this remarkable profession, which combines music, medicine, and spirituality to help the terminally ill and their families face the end of life. Reflecting on the author's experiences as a music-thanatologist, Jennifer Hollis's Music at the End of Life: Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage is an enlightening and emotional examination of the ways in which the experience of dying can be transformed with music. Music at the End of Life highlights the unique role music has come to play in hospice and palliative medicine. Jennifer Hollis interweaves narrative memoir, the personal experiences of fellow music-thanatologists and caregivers, and extensive research to demonstrate the transformative power of music when curing is no longer an option. Through story after unforgettable story, Hollis offers a new vision of end-of-life care, in which music creates a beautiful space for the work of letting go, grieving, and saying goodbye.
The 21st-century Singer
Author : Susan Mohini Kane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199364281
Book Description
Young classical singers, particularly recent graduates of music programs, need not only considerable artistic ability but also intelligence and an acute business sense to navigate the world of professional singing. In this book, author Susan Mohini Kane has created a user-friendly guide for these recent graduates. Kane combines the benefits of an instructional manual with those of a self-reflective workbook to provide emerging classical singers with both practical and inspirational advice.
"Angels Hovering 'round"
Author : Nancy M. Staples
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
" The practice of bedside singing has been found to be of service in many cultures. It offers comfort to the dying and to the families, caregivers, and friends of the dying. It helps to celebrate a life at the end of life. This work of nonfiction/reportage seeks to discover and explain how music and bedside sings can soothe and comfort a dying loved one, while at the same time facilitate an acceptance of what is happening so those in attendance become more fully present in the face of the mystery of death. The subject of this piece is the recently-establishd VA Hospice Chorus at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont. This hospice chorus is the first, and only, hospice chorus functioning within the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Its sole mission is to sing at the bedside of dying veterans. Several questions are central to the themes of this piece (music, giving, death, spirituality), such as who are these singers, these people who have chosen to deal with this ultimate mystery with music through the process of giving? And what prompts these people to drop what they are doing in their everyday lives to come sing at a dying person's bedside? What it is the singers give to the dying? What do they get in return? To discover the answers to these questions, I spent over two years "embedded" in the VA Hospice Chorus. I attended bedside sings for dying veterans, observed chorus rehearsals, participated at hospice conferences and sat in the audience for remembrance and memorial services. During that time, I learned a great deal about life and death from the members of this group. For singers, the practice bedside singing offers them opportunities to explore their personal relationships and responses to death, reminding them again and again of the"joy of living." For the veterans and their families, the practice of bedside singing helps transform the experience of death and dying from one of tragedy and hopelessness to one of acceptance and collaboration...a natural part of our life journey."
Voices from the Hospice
Author : Bob Whorton
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334054265
Book Description
Hospice chaplain Bob Whorton takes us deep into the human experience of suffering and waiting. Framed as a train journey, we are invited to travel through various stations and stop for a while in many different station waiting rooms. The counter-cultural message is that there are difficult situations in our lives which we cannot escape from and must be lived; there are no short-cuts, and the stations must be travelled through one by one. However, in following this path we will find a new orientation to life, and we will find ourselves mirroring the way of Christ. In these pages we listen to the voices of patients and family members in a hospice; they become our teachers. And we listen also to the ancient voice of the psalmist who was well versed in the ways of suffering love.
Sing You Home
Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439102724
Book Description
Ten years of infertility issues culminate in the destruction of music therapist Zoe Baxter's marriage, after which she falls in love with another woman and wants to start a family, but her ex-husband, Max, stands in the way.
Music and Song Preferences for Dealing with Grief in Front-line Hospice Staff
Author : Wan-Fang Hung
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN :
Book Description
Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory
Author : Susan Krantz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2002-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0313010668
Book Description
Krantz provides a defense of traditional, human-centered ethics against Peter Singer's ethical theory. Singer favors a Copernican revolution in ethics because he thinks our traditional ethics has collapsed under pressure from medical technology and from advances in the biological understanding of our fellow animals. For nearly thirty years he has argued that the boundaries of the human lifespan and of the human species are so unclear that we must abandon our views that human beings have a special dignity and that the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. Against this Krantz argues that in today's world, human life has been cheapened and the values of the marketplace have begun to govern medical care and organ donation, birth and death. In fact, this is just a foretaste of the world to come if Singer's ethical theory succeeds in replacing traditional human-centered ethics. What is required is, not the abandonment of human dignity and of the sanctity of human life, but rather a renewed understanding of how principles based on these ideas can be applied in the twenty-first century. Scholars, students, and general readers involved with ethical and contemporary philosophy issues will find this book interesting.
The Storyteller of Jerusalem
Author : Wasif Jawhariyyeh
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623710391
Book Description
The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem’s history, but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage point of the street storyteller. Oud player, music lover and ethnographer, poet, collector, partygoer, satirist, civil servant, local historian, devoted son, husband, father, and person of faith, Wasif viewed the life of his city through multiple roles and lenses. The result is a vibrant, unpredictable, sprawling collection of anecdotes, observations, and yearnings as varied as the city itself. Reflecting the times of Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel, The Storyteller of Jerusalem offers intimate glimpses of people and events, and of forces promoting confined, divisive ethnic and sectarian identities. Yet, through his passionate immersion in the life of the city, Wasif reveals the communitarian ethos that runs so powerfully through Jerusalem’s past. And that offers perhaps the best hope for its future.
