René van Munster: Music can transform relationships between people
Dutch cellist and composer talks how art and music can help to cope with pain, stress and suffering
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It’s a very powerful thing — to get a bit of control, to get a bit of ownership over a piece of music.
I’m not a musician anymore, the patient is not a patient anymore: We’re just people, sharing a meaningful moment.
That was like an emotional roller coaster. You literally see death and life in between minutes.
When they normally see a very grumpy man, all of a sudden they see a human being playing music.
The whole front row of super tough macho males were just like in tears, crying and singing along: “Mamaaa!”
Nerina Guri
Nerina Guri is a former K2.0 staff journalist, mainly covering culture. Nerina has a master’s degree in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and Political Science in UK.
This story was originally written in English.