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› What: “Chamber Music for Body and Soul V”› Where: UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St.› When: 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2› Admission: Free› For more information: www.mtgic.org
Artists performing in Friday’s concert.A unique chamber-music performance is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 2, in UTC’s Fine Arts Center that is designed to highlight the benefits of music in therapy.
“Chamber Music for Body and Soul V” is the collaboration of several regional music organizations, says Dr. Martha Summa-Chadwick, executive director of the nonprofit Music Therapy Gateway in Communications Inc.
Musicians from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Performing Arts and Music Therapy Gateway In Communications will combine their talents for this free program to educate and entertain the audience on the positive therapeutic outcomes for motor, speech and cognitive challenges using music as a direct conduit into the brain.
A pre-concert lecture discussing music and the brain is scheduled at 7 p.m., followed by a 7:30 concert featuring Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat major, opus 47.