Acclaimed singer Renee Fleming probes the relationship of 'Music and Mind' in new book

The cover of"Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness" and editor Renée Fleming. Musical activities can help nonverbal children speak, aid in recovery after a stroke, and improve the stride of people with Parkinson's, according to research.

Two years later, Fleming sat on a panel among scientists, music therapists and fellow artists with the Kennedy Center, the NIH and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work with the organizations inspired her to share with the public what she learned about how the arts affect people.“My brain scan at the NIH was an fMRI scan, functional MRI, which measures blood oxygen in the brain. And it had me singing, speaking and imagining singing.

“I have a friend who actually had a brain bleed and the only thing that alleviated her excruciating pain at first was the loudest possible music she could play. So, it's possible that that's what was interrupting his pain as well.” “Somebody came up to me after the Kennedy Center Honors and said, ‘I just want to say I heard one of your presentations and my dad was really becoming difficult and becoming a little bit violent. And we remembered suddenly because of what you said, that he was an opera lover and we put on opera. And he calmed down and he smiled, and we've been playing it ever since. It's made a huge difference in his mood and state.’ And so it can alleviate life for caregivers as well.

The song partakes of an old Celtic tradition. When a guest rose to leave the party and climbed up in the stirrups of his horse, he’d be given a stirrup cup or parting glass, one more drink to fortify him for the night’s trip back home. The song is in the voice of a guest taking such a leave:Words fill my house and spill out into the woods. It’s just a folk song— plaintive, playful, a little melancholy.

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