Incontri con la Musica

Using music to promote a healing environment has been woven into many cultures throughout human history. The roots of western therapeutic music can be traced back to Pythagoras of Greece who taught music as a medical science, to David’s soothing of King Saul, to the Druids and Bards of Britain and Ireland, to monastic communities of the Middle Ages, and to visionary musicians like St. Hildegard of Bingen, who embodied and passed on the knowledge of the power of therapeutic music. The collaboration between Conservatorio anda San Giovanni Hospital was born for oncologic patients in the hospital in order to relieve them