{"id":545,"date":"2015-12-07T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/la-opera-sings-christmas-carols-to-alzheimers-patients\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T20:08:28","slug":"la-opera-sings-christmas-carols-to-alzheimers-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/la-opera-sings-christmas-carols-to-alzheimers-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Opera sings Christmas carols to Alzheimer\u2019s patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Press Release<\/span>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>LA Opera sings Christmas carols to 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 \/>\n\n    \n          <figcaption>Baritone LeRoy Villanueva, tenor Ashley Faatoalia, mezzo-soprano Melissa Treinkman and soprano Lisa Eden sing Christmas carols.<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text white\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n        \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>Keck Medicine of USC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/zilkha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute<\/a>\u00a0is examining whether Christmas carols could help people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease or dementia recover memories.<br \/>\nMusic to Remember, a program that ZNI and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laopera.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Opera<\/a>\u00a0started in 2012, sends trained vocalists to sing holiday songs at long-term care and assisted living facilities in the Los Angeles area. Other partners include the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.<br \/>\n\u201cMusic is the universal language that enables us to express how we feel,\u201d said Berislav Zlokovic, director of ZNI and holder of the Mary Hayley and Selim Zilkha Chair in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. \u201cThere have been some studies about the effect of music on Alzheimer\u2019s, but I don\u2019t think there is a definitive study.\u201d<br \/>\nThis year, a group of LA Opera vocalists will sing at 13 hospitals, long-term care or assisted living facilities over five days. Holiday music is ubiquitous in December in the United States. Thus, the aim of Music to Remember is to tap into memories associated with these festive tunes.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the course of even 45 minutes of music, you see a calm going over someone who is very disconnected or who may be very agitated,\u201d said Stacy Brightman, a spokeswoman for the LA Opera. \u201cSomeone who was only looking down will start to look up with a focus. We\u2019ve even seen foot tapping and tears.\u201d<br \/>\nLA Opera will also share holiday joy by singing to veterans and sick children. Dressed in layers and capped with Santa hats, LA Opera singers stroll through the halls of facilities such as Keiro Nursing Home, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, City of Hope and Huntington Hospital.<br \/>\nAlthough Music to Remember started three years ago, LA Opera has been singing to children in hospitals and to the elderly for the past six years, Brightman said. The seasonal concerts are part of a movement toward total patient care, she said.<br \/>\n\u201cYou can\u2019t separate someone\u2019s spirit and soul from their mind,\u201d Brightman said. \u201cHoliday music is some of your earliest memories, and that\u2019s the key to Alzheimer\u2019s. You remember the things you learned when you were very young.\u201d<br \/>\nThe<a href=\"http:\/\/adrc.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Alzheimer Disease Research Center<\/a>\u00a0at the Keck School and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a>, California Southland chapter, are also part of the collaborative effort.<br \/>\n\u201cMusic in general has a transformative effect on people with dementia because it corresponds with certain parts of their life,\u201d said Ayesha Dixon, who manages the Alzheimer\u2019s Association\u2019s Memory Mornings in Los Angeles. \u201cMusic makes them feel connected to a time period or a memory associated with that song. People with dementia physically react to the music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-zilkha"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LA Opera sings Christmas carols to Alzheimer\u2019s patients<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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