 | The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Clinic, world leaders in music and medicine, will convene a symposium called “Music and the Brain” to examine new understandings about the vast impact of music on the human brain. This event is part of a newly launched collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and The Cleveland Orchestra, led by the Orchestra’s Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and Ali Rezai, Director, Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic. |
| The symposium will be held on August 16 in Mozarteum University of Salzburg (see photo), Austria. It will be part of the Salzburg Festival, an annual five-week-long music and drama festival. It is the first program of its kind to be held during the Salzburg Festival. Audiences will be exposed to a variety of interrelated topics including: • Where in the brain does creativity live? The symposium will feature an internationally renowned group of experts and dignitaries from Europe and North American representing the fields of music, neuroscience, health and wellness, psychology, and philosophy. Agenda for August 16, 2008 | |
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30 - 12:30 | From Perceptions to Emotions: A Panel Discussion on the Cerebral Experience of Music; The Rhythm of the Brain; Music, Poetry and the Soul in Your Brain; Are Musicians’ Brains Different? Musical Abilities: Hard Wired or Hard Work? |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Neurological Disorders of Famous Composers |
| After 14:00 | The Beneficial Effects of Music on Your Health; The Future of Music in Healing and Medicine; The Neuroscience of Music: Social and Aesthetic Implications; Panel Discussion |
| Event: Discover the music-brain connection Date: August 16 (Saturday), 2008 Location: University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria |
| SOURCE: Discover the Music-Brain Connection |
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