The healing power of music

The volume and depth in this piece changes beautifully. Am sure you will enjoy it. Listen in good speakers, after you read the rest of this message! Brahms waltz 15 in A Flat Major by Leopoldo Lipstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjkCmUO_ms) DON’T DISMISS MUSIC IN HEALING. I learnt this piece in August 2020. (My experience in learning to play the piano from scratch started while I was at work in my mid twenties in 2008. In Bengaluru, now in my mid 40s I am learning at Theme Institute of Music) My experience knowing this piece has healed me for sure, and still is! We had a driving accident in Dec 2020, my husband and I ended up in ICU at Tata Main Hospital (TMH) in Jamshedpur. After he was released, he realised the issues the nursing team and doctors were having with me in communicating/understanding me, so he insisted on intervening. He realised the big gap was in my being stressed. So he played the music which I was learning and loved, almost all the time. I heard and was able to respond appropriately following instructions. (The nursing team there realised my progress and also appreciated the music for the other patients.) Being discharged after 2 months in ICU on life support (I still have no memory yet of my time there), but after another 2 months of being released, and recovering at home, hearing this piece again, I howled. So I wrote this to share with others – that don’t dismiss music in healing. Attached for your pleasure: Brahms waltz 15 in A Flat Major by Leopoldo Lipstein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjkCmUO_ms) I will try and post the same piece by me here, just to share where I was with it. Its an advanced level piece (Grade 6 exam syllabus one when I had learnt it, though I have a music book which says it was for Grade 3). I have formally given only Grade 2. Have restarted piano classes now, and very clearly getting there, slow and steady.