Super Bowl and Opera: What’s the Connection?
For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this past Sunday evening, you probably know the answer to that. For anyone who’s been living on another planet, here’s how it goes: athletic events are always preceded by someone singing the National Anthem, also sometimes know as “Oh Say Can you See?”
Previous Super Bowls have seen/heard quite a variety of artists, singing this beautiful, but difficult to sing, song. We have heard Faith Hill (2000), The Backstreet Boys (2001), Beyoncé (2004), Diana Ross (1982), and Barry Manilow (1984) and so many more. This year, for the first time ever, the powers that be decided to choose an opera singer! And this was none other than the famous soprano, Renee Fleming.
Also the Super Bowl was one of the less-exciting games ever played, with the Seattle Seahawks beating the Denver Broncos soundly (and unexpectedly!). But Renee Fleming’s performance of our National Anthem was spectacular! I think it could well be the most beautiful and moving performance of this song that I’ve ever heard. Listen as Renee Fleming performs this difficult song and in a way that powerfully conveys the meaning of these words. You’ll also enjoy watching the faces of the athletes as she sings. They are also obviously moved by her performance!So how were these instruments used for healing purposes? Probably the Sumerians were well-aware of the connection between emotions and health as well as the ability of music to induce emotion of all kinds.
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In This Issue:
Falling in Love: How Music Enhances Infatuation! There's an old song that says "falling in love with love is falling for make believe." I do believe that some people, both men and woman, are in love with the idea and the feelings that are elicited when in the process of "falling in love." This initial period of meeting someone, feeling powerfully attracted to them, courting them and planning your day around being with them is the period of infatuation. The powerful hormones (primarily adrenaline) are coursing through your body much of the day and your feel that you are walking on air and in a perpetual state of ecstasy. It's a great feeling that I've experienced more than a few times. Then comes the music. It may be the song that was playing when you first laid eyes on her/him. Or the song that was playing during your first kiss. It could be the song you first danced to or the song that was playing when your first rode in a car together. Whatever the occasion, that song gets inextricably connected to your association with that person and when you hear that song, even decades later, the great rush of loving and excited feelings come back with it. I've always thought that perhaps that's why most towns and cities around the world have "oldies" stations that help us middle-aged Baby Boomers reclaim some of the ecstasy as we listen to the songs that we fell in love with! So how can you use the music that you "fell in love to" to help heal a relationship that has perhaps lost the magic or is going through a "rough patch?" Well, since I am also a clinical social worker/counselor/psychotherapist, I wrote a little ebook on the topic a few years ago. It actually takes you through the steps in workbook fashion, to using your own special music to reclaim the magic.
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Are you feeling the longings of romance that go with Valentines Day? Do you remember the thrill of infatuation when you first met, gazed into each other's eyes and danced your first dance together? Do you remember your first kiss and the first "I love you"? We all would like to keep those feelings forever, but infatuation deepens to mature love and inevitably, life happens. Valentine's is the time each year when we try to recreate and reclaim the passion that we knew in the beginning of our relationships. Lovers dance and sing "their song" to each other. Parents coo and sing lullabies to their child to express love. A trip to any card shop will produce Valentine cards for every possible kind of friend, relative, school teacher, minister or service provider. We love loving others and being in love. What can spark those feelings faster then anything else? Hearing "your song" or any one of hundred of songs that have been written about love and being in love. Music is the secret spark that can bring back those feelings that you're longing to feel again. Research in medical schools and hospitals around the world have confirmed that music can:
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