If you ever doubted the beneficial results from participation in music, here is once again, scientific fact that it does. These quotes are from a recent neurological conference in San Diego.

“Music making is a multisensory experience activating links to several parts of the brain.”

– Gottfriend Schlaug
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

“New studies show that musical training enhances the brain’s ability to do other things. The trained brain gets better at detecting patterns in sounds, so that musicians are better at picking out the voice of a friend in a noisy restaurant. Musical experience improves abilities important in daily life. Singing and playing an instrument helps youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice. When people first learn to talk and when they talk to babies they often use musical patterns in their speech. Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion.  The very responses that are enhanced in musicians are deficient in clinical populations such as children with developmental dyslexia and autism.”

– Nina Kraus
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory Director, Northwestern University

“New studies show that music doesn’t involve just hot spots in the brain, but large swaths on both sides of the brain.

– Aniruddh D. Patel
The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego

Beautiful music of love was heard on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at The Gables (at Rolling Meadows) and House of Hope as members of our very own Chancel Choir sang for the shut-ins there.  Many thanks to those who went to put a smile on the face of loved ones of our church and community.

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Join us for this annual FREE organ concert featuring our very own Dr. Kiyo Watanabe.  The anticipated set list is as follows:

• Tu es petra (Henri Mulet)
• Sleepers, Wake! (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Now Thank We All Our God (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Prelude and Fugue in G Minor (Marcel Dupre)
• Prelude and Fugue on the Name of ALAIN (Maurice Durufle)
• Londonderry Air (Traditional Irish)
• Choral No. 3 in A Minor (Cesar Franck)

Childcare will be provided!

For more information, contact Dr. Kiyo Watanabe (kwatanabe@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x231).

Our annual Advent Celebration with beautiful music (featuring Children, Youth, and Adult Choirs along with ensembles), a live nativity, and candlelight will take place:

• Sunday, December 6, 2009
• 6:00pm
• Childcare will be available

Following this beautiful service, we will have a Festival of Tables covered with goodies to eat and drink in Fellowship Hall.

Bring friends and family as we prepare for the birth of Christ in the world and in our lives!

All are invited to share in the Advent Celebration with a Live Nativity, Music, Candlelight, Festival of Tables (Christmas treats to share), and more on:

Sunday, December 6, 2009

6:00pm

Bring your friends and family to this event as we anticipate the coming of Christ into our lives!

For those participating in the Live Nativity and Music, plan to rehearse:

• Saturday, December 5 at 12:00noon; and
• Sunday, December 6 at 4:30pm

This October 25th, 2009 service features the sermon by the Rev. Paul Goodrich, “What’s It All About?”, based upon Exodus 25:1-8, and special music by the Trinity & Wesley Children’s Choirs (“We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder”), Chancel Choir (“Ubi Caritas”).    You can see or listen to a portion of this service by clicking the links below:

Real Audio

Real Video (High Speed Connection Required)