Musicorps Wounded Warrior Band - Inspirational Music-Inspirational Lives
If you didn't have the chance to see it I think the most beautifully performed and inspirational version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" I have ever heard was performed as an Internet exclusive onThe Corbert Report.
It was a performance by the MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band. This particular performance infused the incredible vocal compliment of renowned performer Aaron Neville with the voice of Lieutenant Corporal Tim Donley . The band has also performed with Yo-Yo Ma and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and The Bleeding Heart Band.
The MusiCorp program, and the band, have been praised in The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post as well as by Congress...... and featured on CNN, ABC and CBS.
MusiCorps began when composer and founder of Renovation In Music Education (RIME), Arthur Bloom, was invited to visit a soldier recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The soldier, a musician who had been badly injured by an roadside bomb. In his conversations with Bloom the soldier expressed concerns about the effects of his injuries on his ability to play music. In conversations with Bloom the soldier shared his pain and frustration. And there the seed of an idea took root growing into enthusiasm for an unprecedented music program not just for this soldier but openly embracing wounded vets. Whether wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere many have had their lives blown up in every sense of the word. MusiCorps is an intensive rehabilitation program that helps them play music and recover their lives.
And the program brings a real world , real work perspective. It brings hours of motivating work, individualized projects, performances and regular visits by professional musicians.
MusiCorps also aids recovery from war-related trauma, including PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and TBI (traumatic brain injury). Concussive blasts from roadside bombs cause TBI, and it has been called the signature injury of the war on terror. Learning, creating, and performing music involves so many aspects of brain function that it is believed to recruit uninjured parts of the brain to compensate for parts that have been injured.
You can support these vets and the program, by booking them for performances... if you are a working musician you can engage through hospital and program visits, lending your skills and expertise... and of course we can all engage by providing donations of instruments and equipment and financial support. You can view the performance that inspired me to write this post at www.endangeredcultures.com/blog.
To learn more about Musicorp and the Wounded Warrior Band visit their website, www.http://musicorps.net or their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/musicorps.
It was a performance by the MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band. This particular performance infused the incredible vocal compliment of renowned performer Aaron Neville with the voice of Lieutenant Corporal Tim Donley . The band has also performed with Yo-Yo Ma and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and The Bleeding Heart Band.
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The MusiCorp program, and the band, have been praised in The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post as well as by Congress...... and featured on CNN, ABC and CBS.
MusiCorps began when composer and founder of Renovation In Music Education (RIME), Arthur Bloom, was invited to visit a soldier recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The soldier, a musician who had been badly injured by an roadside bomb. In his conversations with Bloom the soldier expressed concerns about the effects of his injuries on his ability to play music. In conversations with Bloom the soldier shared his pain and frustration. And there the seed of an idea took root growing into enthusiasm for an unprecedented music program not just for this soldier but openly embracing wounded vets. Whether wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere many have had their lives blown up in every sense of the word. MusiCorps is an intensive rehabilitation program that helps them play music and recover their lives.
And the program brings a real world , real work perspective. It brings hours of motivating work, individualized projects, performances and regular visits by professional musicians.
MusiCorps also aids recovery from war-related trauma, including PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and TBI (traumatic brain injury). Concussive blasts from roadside bombs cause TBI, and it has been called the signature injury of the war on terror. Learning, creating, and performing music involves so many aspects of brain function that it is believed to recruit uninjured parts of the brain to compensate for parts that have been injured.
You can support these vets and the program, by booking them for performances... if you are a working musician you can engage through hospital and program visits, lending your skills and expertise... and of course we can all engage by providing donations of instruments and equipment and financial support. You can view the performance that inspired me to write this post at www.endangeredcultures.com/blog.
To learn more about Musicorp and the Wounded Warrior Band visit their website, www.http://musicorps.net or their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/musicorps.
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