The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20566
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On September 7-8, 2018, the National Institutes of Health and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in association with the National Endowments for the Arts, will host the second Sound Health - Music and the Mind event. This year’s program is titled Shaping Our Children’s Lives Through Music Engagement. Fresh from last year’s sold-out event, acclaimed musical artists will join top neuroscientists to explore links between music, rhythm, and brain development.
Presenters and performers include NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, soprano and Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor at Large Renée Fleming, CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, legendary Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, pianist and Kennedy Center Artistic Director of Jazz Jason Moran, along with other special musical guests, and neuroscientists Drs. John Iversen, Nina Kraus, Charles Limb, and Laurel Trainor.
Events require tickets. For a full list of events, and ticket information, visit: https://www.nih.gov/sound-health/events.
If you are unable to attend, all of this year’s Sound Health Events will be live-streamed on the NIH Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nih.gov/.
For more information about NIH’s Sound Health research plan on the application of music in health settings, visit: https://www.nih.gov/sound-health/research-plan.