Mark Varvares
Cancer Today : an article in Town and Style featuring our Music Therapy Program
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April 1st : SymphonyCares Showcase : Featuring the SLU Cancer Center!
We are thrilled to be apart of the St Louis Symphony’s ‘SymphonyCares Showcase’ this year! They will highlight their outreach efforts in different community settings, and part of the event will recreate the ‘Day Zero’ performance of Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” that two wonderful Symphony musicians gave at our BMT Clinic last December. —- Tickets are FREE! —– Come and enjoy some excellent music and see how the St Louis Symphony impacts our community in amazing and meaningful ways.
Improving Cancer Treatment with Patient-Centered Music Therapy : An Article by the St Louis Business Health Coalition
Click on the image below to read a fantastic article done by the St Louis Area Business Health Coalition on music therapy here at SLU!
DAY ZERO : A celebratory performance – Article in The St Louis Post Dispatch
One of the many perks of having an outstanding relationship with the St Louis Symphony is that you get to treat patients to unique performance opportunities. One such patient got a celebratory concert by two of SLS’s finest on his Day Zero (when a patient receives his/her first Bone Marrow Transplant).
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Symphony Mondays! New Season!
We are thrilled to announce our newest season in partnership with the Saint Louis Symphony! Their fine musicians provide a welcome sensory refocus by performing cherished Classical selections for our patients in the outpatient Infusion Room. To say we are lucky to have them would be like saying “the ocean is wet” – an understatement!