Music and Medicine: George Gershwin - with Dr. Richard Kogan
Monday, November 16, 6:30-9 p.m
Steinway Hall
109 West 57th St., New York, NY (Map)
In celebration of 50 years as the world's leader in music therapy for autistic and disabled children and adults Steinway Piano Gallery of Long Island is proud to sponsor this event for Nordoff-Robbins at legendary Steinway Hall Join us for cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, enlightening entertainment and a tour of the Steinway showroom.
$75 /Donor
Supports general funding
$150 /Benefactor
Supports music therapy sessions
$300 /Patron
Supports music therapy sessions, and helps fund music therapy training and research
*The amount of your ticket purchase exceeding $25 is tax-deductible
Seating is limited
RSVP
212 -998-5151 or email nordoffrobbinsmusictherapy@gmail.com
Checks may be made payable to:
Nordoff- Robbins Music Therapy Foundation
c /o Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy
82 Washington Square East, 4th floor
New York, NY 10003
About Dr. Richard Kogan
Dr. Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a concert pianist and as a psychiatrist. The New York Times praised him
for his
"eloquent, compelling, and exquisite playing" and the Boston Globe wrote, "Kogan has somehow managed to excel at
the world's two most demanding professions."
Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/recitals that explore the role of music in healing and the influence ofpsychiatric and medical illnesseson the creative output of `` such as Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.He has given these presentations at music festivals, concert series, medical conferences, and scholarly symposia throughout the world. He performed Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and delivered an address entitled "The Power of Music in Healing Mind and Body" at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Dr. Koganhas recorded, "Music and the Mind: The Life and Works of Robert Schumann" for Touchstar Productions.Ina review of this DVD, Yo Yo Ma wrote: "I came away from this extraordinary lecture and performance deeply moved by a fascinating presentation that only Dr. Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist, can deliver...Through a unique combination of brilliant psychiatric insights and superb musicianship, my musical colleague, Richard Kogan, presents a rich multidimensional profile revealing some of the most intimate sources of Robert Schumann's enormous creativity, imagination and artistry." Dr. Kogan has won numerous honors including the Concert Artists Guild Award and first prize in the Chopin Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation.
Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-college,Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He completed a psychiatry residency and academic fellowship at NYU. He has a private practice of psychiatry in New York City and is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College as Co-Director of its Human Sexuality Program. He is also Co-Chairman of the recently established Weill Cornell Music/Medicine Initiative.
About the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy
Music is an intrinsic part of all of us. Pulse and rhythm are found in our heartbeat, our breathing and our movements. Melody is created in our laughing, crying, screaming or singing. The whole range of our emotions can be held within the rhythms and harmonies of different musical styles and idioms. These intimate connections with music can remain despite disability or illness, and are not dependent on a musical training or background. The Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU has been providing services to children and adults for the past twenty years.
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About the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation
As a program of New York University, the Nordoff-Robbins Center is a non-profit facility. The Center is financed primarily through the fund-raising efforts of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation, Inc., a 501C3 non-profit organization, which exists to make this service possible. The Foundation's main sources of income are special events and grants. The additional funds to cover operating costs are raised through therapy session fees, training course fees, the sale of instructional materials and contributions. A number of organizations and foundations support the work of the Center, including Autism Speaks, Inc., Harry S. Black and Allon Fuller Fund, Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Gibson Foundation, The Lyle Foundation, The New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, Teammates for Kids Foundation, and The Joseph Leroy and Ann C. Warner Fund.
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