“If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me and ease my pain?”
As old-time fiddler Heidi Clare Lambert, artist in residence at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, sang these lyrics from Townes Van Zandt, her music filled a Parnassus campus conference room not the typical place to hear such sounds. Read more
Once a month, Hellman Visiting Artist Heidi Clare leaves Colorado and comes to San Francisco with her fiddle to lead a workshop on music and the mind at UCSF. These workshops are always great fun and lead to both fascinating discussion and great music. Recently Heidi and opera singer/scientist Indre Viskontas lectured at the Memory and Aging Grand Rounds about music, emotion and brain. They presented some of the neurological and psychological effects of listening to and performing music. Read more
UCSF’s efforts to harness and understand the impact of music therapy on the brain was featured in a recent PBS NewsHour story on “The Healing Power of Music.” Read more