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Doctors at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine explain the important role music plays in their lives and the importance of music education.
Takeaways:
1. You can be in Band/music and still be a medical professional or doctor. You don't have to quit music in order to become a doctor. Each of these doctor-musicians is proof!
2. Performing music helps alleviate stress.
3. Your musical training could even apply to being a doctor! (2:50)
4. Musicians' brains are different! Musical training creates neural "highways" in your brain that could make it easier to learn other concepts. (3:35)
5. It is awesome how these medical professionals use their musical skills to help patients and other doctors.
6. The Arts revitalize you!
Dr. Jack Stamp, from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, explains why music education is important using comparisons to athletics and academics (not downplaying their importance, just comparing, please don't be offended). The demonstration group was an honor band Dr. Stamp was conducting. The piece used is Shenandoah arranged by Frank Ticheli.
Shawn Izadi balances majoring in biochemistry, being a non-scholarship football player, and a member of the Longhorn Marching Band at the University of Texas! He was in the band and played football for his freshman and sophomore years at Coppell High School before being selected as Drum Major his junior year.
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