The Magic Pill

If you could give your child a magic pill that would remove that extra chromosome, would you do it?

To tell you the truth, when my Christina was born, and I found out shortly after her birth that she has Down syndrome, I felt like I’ve been swallowed by darkness, and my only exit seemed to find THE CURE for Down syndrome. I was determined to make Christina “right, perfect and normal.” I was on a mission.

For the first year all I did was cry and every day grief knocked me over, and when I wasn’t crying, I was in front of the computer asking Google how to cure Down syndrome. I actually found some cure…or so I thought…something that was done in Mexico with side-effects that could result in death…oh my!!! Then I had this great idea to have surgery on Christina’s eyes, so they wouldn’t be so slanted anymore. Oh, by the way, I never had that surgery done on her. That thought was just part of my initial craziness to find THE CURE for Down syndrome.

But the bigger question is: Why do we always want to change everyone else and mold them into what we think is perfect, right and normal? Where are we getting our standards from? I wanted to change Christina because of my own ignorance, because of my believe that only smart and beautiful people are loveable and acceptable. Again what were my standards about beauty and intelligence? Where did I get them from? The Media? Teachers? Peers? Family? Friends? I thought Christina’s “defect” was a sign of a fallen and sinful world. How silly I was! The only sin here is how we respond towards someone who is different from us and how we treat them. Do we accept and love them just the way they are, or do we mistreat and reject them? Do we help or neglect them? Do I see and accept my little precious Christina just the way she is or do I see only her diagnosis?

As the years passed, I realized that I had to die to an old part of myself, a part that thought only productive, articulate, smart and beautiful people are deserving of love. I gave up trying to change Christina. I came to terms that it was impossible to extract that extra chromosome from every cell of her body, to change her entire molecular structure. I finally admitted my helplessness and stopped fighting with God, and accepted that God is sovereign no matter the situation. I read an Amish Proverb once, and it said:”God won’t lead you where his grace can’t keep you.” I began working on ME, and when I started to change ME, my pain and grief over my child born with Down syndrome disappeared. I also realized that shared intellect doesn’t matter all that much, that Christina would come alive in ways that are different from mine. But what began to matter was her presence and her love.

Life does not receive value according to what we can produce, or what academic degrees we have or how beautiful we are, but how much we can give and love and how much compassion and grace we can extend to those who are different from us.

None of us are perfect. We are human, and we are learning what it means to be compassionate and really love someone. We are given the chance to understand victory in Christ.

God Makes No Mistakes

By Daniela Clapp

Why would a merciful God so loving and kind leave my precious child mentally behind?

I count the chromosomes and in confusion look up at Heaven. “God, you made a mistake, there are forty seven.” With bitter, endless tears I pray, “Please God, take the extra chromosome away.”

My baby is broken, my pain is deep, my burden too heavy to bear. “God, do you even care?”

My Joy, my Happiness, my Dreams, all seem lost and gone, and my heart is too wounded to find the strength to go on.

Friends and Family come to see this brand new child, but my ocean of tears and my hurting soul abide.

The countless doctor visits begin, and again I ask God, “What did I do wrong to deserve such misery, where did I sin?”

On the operating table so helpless and small, my brand new baby needs open-heart surgery, but that is not all.

The journey continues through deep valleys and places unknown, with no way out, no exit in sight, and again I shook my fist at God and cried.

The tears are falling and falling all year long, but suddenly in the distance I hear a sweet song. Yes, a sweet song; yes my little dear child, it’s true, a bird was singing a beautiful song about you. It was the nightingale that woke me last night when all was still; it sang in the golden moonlight, from out the woodland hill. I opened my window so gently; I looked on the dreaming dew, and oh! The bird, my sweet angel, was singing, singing of you.

God smiled at me from Heaven above and whispered, “No need to despair, have faith and believe in the Power of Love.”

Dear God, now I can see your mighty hand’s work in all around me: the stream, the forest, the flowers, my brand new child, the stars above the blue. Oh Heaven itself, my sweet angel, is praying, praying for you.

God said, “This child is a gift, please trust in me, this child will love you like no one else can, for she loves unconditionally. I made no mistake, you see, everything is exactly the way it was meant to be!”

God brought my Miracle in disguise, you see.

Just look to God in Heaven above and start believing in the Power of Love!

© 2011 by Daniela Clapp, Founder of Music Transforms You, LLC, www.danielaclapp.com

The Genocide of Babies With Down syndrome

Conservationists for Down syndrome – Saving the endangered Kiwis

Newsletter – December 2011

By Mike Sullivan

“People with Down syndrome may soon disappear from the face of the earth.” This was the introduction by Mike McRoberts to the 60 Minutes documentary “Down but not out” that aired in June this year. 60 Minutes revealed the Ministry of Health’s new antenatal screening programme would reduce the population of people with Down syndrome through disability selective abortion. The screening programme was introduced earlier this year without public consultation and the Ministry “did not bother” asking the opinion of anyone who has Down syndrome, about the programme.

Savingdowns spokesman, Mike Sullivan, featured in the 60 Minutes documentary. He said people with Down syndrome and other disabilities are human beings who live full and rewarding lives. “They must be treated on an equal basis with other members of our society, without any form of discrimination.”

Savingdowns is a group of 36 parents and siblings of people with Down syndrome. It was established this year in response to the new screening programme.

Complaint laid with the International Criminal Court

Savingdowns and Right to Life NZ lodged a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Government’s screening programme in June 2011. The basis of the complaint is that the programme specifically targets and persecutes unborn children with Down syndrome and other rare genetic conditions, through the prevention of their births. This is in effect, an act of genocide and a crime against humanity, under Articles 6 and 7 of the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute forms the basis of operation of the ICC. The Court has confirmed that the complaint is being considered. New Zealand is party to the Rome Statute and is bound to comply with any ruling from the ICC.

The emphasis of the ICC complaint is on consequences and intent, with genetic screening and selective abortion being the means. The intent is to identify unborn children with Down syndrome, Spina Bifida and other conditions, so that births to the group can be prevented. Item 14 of the Memorandum to the Cabinet of the New Zealand government, dated 23 October 2007, detailed the purposes of the screening programme to include (emphasis added):

 The purpose of screening is to provide women with information about their pregnancy to enable them to make informed choices. This information may help women to….(Second bullet) decide whether to continue with or terminate the pregnancy.

 The consequence of the screening programme is that a substantial part of the group is being systematically destroyed.

Item 28 of the Memorandum to Cabinet states (emphasis added):

“There is the potential for activities associated with improving the quality of antenatal screening for Down syndrome to have a negative impact on people with disabilities, including:”…. (Fourth bullet) ”decrease in the number of babies born with Down syndrome. International experience suggests that as a result of screening and diagnostic tests, up to 90 percent of women who receive an antenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome will choose to terminate their pregnancies.”

 In effect, the screening programme facilitates genocidal acts against the group, with abortion being the means of perpetrating those acts. The intent and consequences are the same as those that occurred during the Nazi genocide where the disabled where the first group targeted for sterilisation and “euthanasia” (read killing) under the Racial Hygiene programme. Members of the Third Reich were found guilty of charges of crimes against humanity at Nürnberg for these very actions against children with Down syndrome and Spina Bifida. Now, in New Zealand, the government is promoting, facilitating, financing and tolerating measures intended to prevent births of the same group of people.  Therefore, our government is implicated in the making of a biological genocide towards that group of people. As was the case in Germany, the New Zealand screening programme is carried out under the guise of being legal under domestic law.

Other areas of advocacy

Whilst awaiting the outcomes of the ICC application, Savingdowns is being active in other important areas of advocacy around this issue. This includes raising awareness around the rapidly emerging biological genocide of routine genetic pregnancy screening and disability selective abortion.

Savingdowns recently launched a web site that provides static information on their work. A Facebook page has also be used as a social media tool to provide for discussion and sharing of information internationally. Both of these tools are proving to be very successful.

Feedback from disability advocacy groups within New Zealand and worldwide is that the issue is rapidly gaining traction and support. There is certainly much interest in the outcomes of the ICC case.

Diane Belcher and Mike Sullivan gave presentations at the Voice for Life National Conference in Wellington in November as part of our ongoing awareness campaign.

Other specific areas of advocacy are covered below.

NZDSA position statements on screening for Down syndrome

The NZDSA is recommending two new position statements on screening for Down syndrome, one for prenatal screening and one for pregnancy termination. These have gone out to all NZDSA members for feedback.

The proposed position statement on prenatal screening includes the wording:

The NZDSA advocates that the primary goal of prenatal screening should not be to reduce the birth prevalence of Down syndrome in the population, but rather to improve prenatal health care and delivery care for the mother and baby.

The proposed position statement on termination is:

The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association does not consider Down syndrome in itself a reason for termination.

These statements are significantly stronger in providing clear advocacy for life for those with Down syndrome and opposition towards discrimination. This is a huge step forward and the NZDSA are to be congratulated for this initiative.

Savingdowns has positively contributed towards this achievement through the significant media exposure of the 60 Minutes documentary “Down but not out” and the lodging of the formal complaint with the ICC.

The Ministry of Health

Savingdowns recently meet with officials from the Ministry of Health who are involved with the screening programme. They were Dr Pat Tuohy, a specialist paediatrician who is the Chief Advisor Child Health and Jane McEntee, Manager Antenatal and Newborn Screening of the National Screening Unit. Although they were not prepared to have the ICC issue on the table, they were willing to reconsider other important issues that relate to the information they have produced about prenatal screening.

There was acknowledgement that the current consumer resources were not acceptable. These are now being revised to provide balanced, accurate, positive and non-discriminatory information around the conditions being screened for.

The Ministry has agreed to work on an initiative to up-skill the training of medical students to reflect positive lived experiences around the conditions being screened for.

There has been an acknowledgement of the need to involve people with Down syndrome, Spina Bifida and other conditions in decisions around screening that affect them.

There was general agreement to change the referral system for positive diagnosis. The plan is to include referrals to a Paediatrician with direct experience in the condition concerned and also to a family with a member with the condition concerned.

The Human Rights Commission

It was also agreed with the Ministry of Health that Savingdowns would approach the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to convene a meeting with the government ministries concerned to discuss areas of the screening programme that breach international humanitarian law and the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD).

Savingdowns have subsequently met with the newly appointed Chief Human Rights Commissioner, David Rutherford. He is a sports and commercial lawyer who has had extensive experience in disability work and was on the International Board responsible for organizing the Special Olympics. He was previously the CEO of the New Zealand Rugby Union.

As a result of that meeting, Savingdowns and a number of other disability advocacy groups, including Down Syndrome International, the Spina Bifida Association of New Zealand and the International Federation for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus, will be lodging a formal submission that reviews the compatibility of the screening programme with the CRPD and human rights law more generally. People First NZ Inc, DPA NZ and the NZDSA are also currently considering whether to join this initiative.

Savingdowns is requesting that the policy for antenatal screening for disabilities be reviewed against New Zealand’s obligations under the CRPD. From this we are advocating that an action plan be developed and implemented to address all aspects of the screening programme that are in conflict with the CRPD.

Savingdowns is asking that the HRC take a proactive role in this process.

It is also expected that the New Zealand situation will be reported to the UN committee on the CRPD when the New Zealand country report is presented, probably during 2012. This will be through the submission of an independent “shadow report” from the disability advocacy groups that are involved in this initiative.

Further information

Further information on saving Down syndrome is available on their web site and facebook page.

Visit us at www.savingdowns.com 

Savingdowns.com on Facebook

 

Can Birds Fly?

My little daughter Christina who has Down syndrome was playing in the backyard today with her younger sister Maria.

Christina and Maria

Suddenly the girls came running in, telling me “Mom, a little green bird is stuck in the tree and cannot fly anymore.” So I went outside to look at this bird. Indeed, there was a very pretty little green bird stuck between the dividing trunk of one of our Mesquite trees. I picked up this bird, took it inside the house and offered the exhausted little thing some water, which it drank eagerly. I found an extra shoe-box, laid some paper-towels inside and carefully placed the bird inside this box. The girls stayed with the bird while I started to make some phone calls, trying to figure out how to help this little creature.

A few hours later the bird died mysteriously, and Christina and Maria were so sad. In order to divert their attention, I asked Maria to continue with her homeschooling writing exercises, and I took Christina to the piano

Christina playing the piano

for her daily piano practice. After playing a couple of her favorite songs, I tried to reinforce the concept of Low and High on the keyboard. To illustrate this and get her to understand this concept, I asked her a bunch of questions like: can cats fly High in the air or are they Low on the ground? Of course her response was “no, cats don’t fly, they are Low on the ground.” Then I asked:”Can ducks fly High Up?” Yes. “Can chickens fly High Up? Yes. “Can birds fly High Up?” Christina’s response was:”No mom, the bird is dead and cannot fly, poor birdie.”…..her answer startled me a little, and I thought to myself ‘What a precious and caring and truthful answer she had.” That is how our kids with Down syndrome are: very caring and loving, always concerned for the well-being of others.

I finished Christina’s piano lesson

Me teaching Christina piano

with her new favorite tune “Little Train” where at the end she gets to blow into a wooden whistle that sound just like a real train. I am amazed how fast and well she is learning all those little piano tunes. It just goes to show, kids with Down syndrome CAN learn to play the piano!!!

Music Transforms You,

Daniela Clapp

 

 

Life Has an Expiration Date, So Stop and Listen To the Music! A True Story That Happened in Washington D.C.

You just never know . . .

THE SITUATION

In Washington , DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.  During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.  After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing.  He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About 4 minutes later:

The violinist received his first dollar.  A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At 6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At 10 minutes:

A 3-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly.  The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time.  This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent – without exception – forced their children to move on quickly.

At 45 minutes:

The musician played continuously.  Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while.  About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace.  The man collected a total of $32.

After 1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over.  No one noticed and no one applauded.  There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world.  He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.  Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story.  Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and people’s priorities.

This experiment raised several questions:

*In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

*If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made . . ..

How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?

Enjoy life NOW .. it has an expiration date.

So what does this mean for you and me? Many of us are so unbelievably busy, that we don’t stop enough times to feel gratitude for the beautiful things that are all around us. We don’t even notice them, even if they are right in front of us.

Like the beautiful flowers. When was the last time you stopped and truly admired and smelled a flower? When was the last time you listened to the splashing of a water fountain? When was the last time you marveled sat a breathtaking sunset? We are all too out of sync with the rhythm of nature, and that is where our troubles begin. We run around like crazy trying to make a living, fulfill demanding schedules, chauffeur the kids from activity to activity, and in the process we lose our identity, and we become strangers to ourselves and to the people we love the most. Stress settles in and problems and sickness begin.

However, there is Good News. Let’s take a look at the Amish and some of their wisdom. The Amish always seem to have time. They observe the natural flow of nature, and they go with it instead of against it. They know that there is no harvest every day. “Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.” “Enjoy today…it won’t come back.” “The most important things in your home are people.”

Make it your goal to listen to at least one good classical piece once a week and attend a live classical concert every once in a while. The music will bring peace and healing to your life. For a moment in time you will escape from your every day worries and enter the beautiful world of music.

Music Transforms You,

Daniela Clapp

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The Law of Attraction

Does the law of attraction really work? Well today I experienced first hand that it does. For some time now I have been having these fears about fire and my house burning down. I have been trying to ignore these thoughts, but attached a great deal of fear to them. Nothing happened until today: I asked my little girl if she wanted me to warm up a burrito for lunch. Since I am one of those health nuts, I do not own a microwave, because I believe they are bad for your health. So I turned on the oven and stuck the burrito in there. Then we forgot about it and left the home for more than an hour. We went to run some errands and to the grocery store. At the store I mentioned buying some burritos and that is when my little Maria said:”Mama, did you turn off the oven?” I froze and said:”Oh no, oh no, oh no…” over and over. Maria turned beet-red in her little face and started shaking and so did I. We both were so scared. We hurried out of the store, ran to the car and I drove like a mania k towards home. I called 911 and was connected to the fire department. The lady on the other line asked me how far I was from home, and I told her, just about two or three more minutes. She wanted to know if i saw any smoke in the air in the direction of my home, but I didn’t. Finally at home, the house was still standing and from that end I didn’t see any fire. The fire woman stayed with me on the phone till I got inside and a big miracle happened, there was no fire, just lots of smoke. I was lucky this time. Or was it Luck? It was probably one of God’s angels that protected my home and kept it from burning up. It was also a warning from above: “Watch your thoughts, they will become your reality!!!”

From now on I will strive to not make myself so crazy busy, because that is how you get distracted and loose more than you gain. Being too busy is unproductive, harmful and even deadly. It’s time to find a balance in life and accept some things just the way they are. When trying to change the unchangeable, you will run out of steam and energy. It’s time to be patient with myself and others and not be so driven in an unhealthy manner. It’s a road that leads to nowhere. The Amish have some very wise Proverbs to share: “Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.”  “Enjoy today…it won’t come back.”  “Don’t hurry, don’t worry, do your best, leave the rest.”  The Amish recognize patience as a key part of God’s character. One way they try to to conform is to purposefully slow down the tempo of life – an obvious example: they ride in a buggy, pulled by a horse. They have a deep connection to the rhythm of nature through their farm. They avoid time thieves like television, radio, newspapers. It’s as if they live their life with an unlimited amount of time. They say:”It takes God half a century to make a sturdy oak. Harvest comes not every day. A handful of patience is is worth more than a bushel of brains, You can’t make cider without apples, and don’t count your eggs before they are laid.”

I need to learn how to enjoy today and have fun when opportunities come up. Like for example, I had an opportunity to take the kids to a nice horse show this weekend. But I didn’t go, because I had too much homework to finish and every Saturday and Sunday I have about seven hours of laundry to do. If I don’t get most of it done by Saturday, the clothes will be dirty for the following week and then I will start running behind on other duties for the following week. But the past Saturday will never come back and I will never know what I missed and whom I might have met. So, laundry can wait, but the rainbow will fade.

Also start taking some time to listen to good music and be out in nature and listen to it’s melody. It will make you happier and healthy.

Music Transforms You

Daniela Clapp

Wei of Music

Yesterday I went to a local Farmer’s Market and saw a vendor that was selling raw, vegan chocolate. They called their chocolate “Wei of Chocolate.” It is actually infused with herbs and spices that are supposed to make you feel a certain way, like invigorated, or more relaxed, happy, less stressful, powerful, focused, calm, etc… I liked that idea, because that way you get to eat chocolate and have a wonderful side-benefit. So it’s not just any old chocolate, but it has “vibrations” in it that are healthy for you in one way or another. Everything in the universe vibrates and everything effects everything else. For example when you send a loving thought or prayer across the ocean, that prayer doesn’t get swallowed by the waves, and the masses of water, but will be carried by the water, the wind, and the land to the other side and reach the person you prayed for or thought of. Our bodies are composed of 90% water, so when you think happy thoughts it will affect your inner state of being in a positive manner, same if you think unhappy, desperate thoughts, it will have a very negative affect on your state of mind and body.” As the saying goes: “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.” Thoughts are very powerful and if you don’t get that stinking thinking under control, you might cause yourself more trouble than is necessary.

What if we took this concept of infusing chocolate a step further and play beautiful music to the flowers before they are infused into this chocolate. Like Masaru Emoto, the Japanese scientist,  writes about the messages of water.  Emoto is known for his claim that if human speech or thoughts are directed at water droplets before they are frozen, images of the resulting water crystals will be “beautiful”   or “ugly”

Music Transforms You

depending upon whether the words or thoughts were positive or negative. Emoto claims this can be achieved through prayer, music or by attaching written words to a container of water. I think if we infuse music into this Wei of Chocolate, it could be even more powerful than it is now.

Music is very powerful and holds the key to seemingly insurmountable problems. That is why it is so important to become an active participant in piano music. You can do so by purchasing my unique method called “Music Transforms You.” It is a step by step concept that will take you from beginner to master. Try it, you will love it.

Music Transforms You

Daniela Clapp

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Planting the Beautiful Seed of Music

Last week my kids and I planted bushes, vines and flowers in our garden. All of the plants are small and barely noticeable, yet every morning when we water them we enjoy looking at them. We imagine how big and beautiful they will be one day, and how they will turn the plain looking walls of the house into a festive, pleasing sight. It will take several years, and we can hardly wait for that day. But we diligently go out there every day, water them, and protect them from storms and freezing weather and even if our efforts don’t seem to be making any difference, a miracle is happening: the plants grow a little bit every day.

So it is with music. Developing a skill is like the growth of a beautiful flower. When a child begins music study, certain conditions must be met. Encouragement, a good teacher, daily practice and good environment. It’s a lot of work to keep the seed nourished and not very rewarding when you don’t see anything growing. It usually takes an adult with long-range perception to help the child continue on.

After some time, the seed sprouts, leaves and flowers will grow, and the roots will develop an anchor and nourish the plant. The roots of the child’s ability, such as technical achievements in motor control, physical strength, note reading, are the underlying sources of nourishment, whereby the music making gains its quality.

Finally the growing musician reaches a stage of maturity when it begins to form a bud and then the flower in full bloom. This is the stage when a young musician has gained enough proficiency to really get hooked on music. This is when the student is motivated to practice because of the satisfaction of mastering the instrument and of playing the music itself. The music is the ultimate satisfaction. At this point the student has the need to express themselves musically because the music has become part of them. 

Music Transforms You,

Daniela

Music even in Auschwitz

Music plays a vital role in the world around us, and the ancient Greeks in their sophisticated society understood the tremendous power of music. Plato himself said that music has a strong effect on the long-term personality and character of a young listener.

The Greeks said, music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy is the study of relationships between observable, external objects, and music is the study of relationships between invisible, internal objects. Music finds the invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and helps us figure out the position of things inside us. Let’s examine how this works.

September 11, 2001, marks one of the worst attacks on the United States of America, when terrorists took over a commercial airplane packed with hundreds of passengers, and flew it into the Twin Towers of New York City, killing hundreds of innocent people. That day, and the weeks to follow, no one played board-games, no one played cards or watched entertainment on TV, no one went shopping or to the mall, but there was singing. People sang hymns; they sang ‘We shall overcome’ and ‘America the Beautiful’. The first organized public expression of grief was the Brahms Requiem at the Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. Recovery was gained through the arts.

Another chilling example is that of Nazi Germany during World War II. The French composer, Olivier Messiaen, was captured by the Germans in June 1940, and imprisoned in a concentration camp. There he wrote one of the most profound musical compositions of all time.

The conditions in those concentration camps were so inhumane and horrific beyond what words could say or describe, but despite it all, the people wrote poems and played or composed music. Those prisoners barely had the essentials to survive and needed their energy to stay warm, avoid beatings and withstand torture, yet from these camps we have music and poetry. This leads us to believe, that music and the arts must be essential for life. Art is part of survival and part of the human spirit.  

Music stirs emotions deep inside us, and reflects what the ancient Greeks said, “Music is the study of relationships between invisible, internal objects”. This is why music matters and is so important. Music is not a product for sale and musicians are not merely entertainers, but can be compared to  paramedics for the human soul.

Prisoner Orchestra in Auschwitz. Even in

this most horrible place was music.

Music Transforms You

Daniela