Music as Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith

If the mark of a true artist is that he or she can see beyond the tangible into the world of the intangible, then Deforia Lane is an artist. Partly as one introspectively engaged in autobiography and partly in her professional role as a resident director of music therapy at University Hospitals of Cleveland's Ireland Cancer Center, at Rainbow Babies and at Children's Hospital, Lane relives the ways in which she has seen music work spiritual and sometimes physical healing upon the ill (including herself) and their families. While Lane certainly seems gifted musically, her larger and more rare gift may be the ability to see grace in everyday occurrences and to name it. This book will appeal to those interested in both music therapy and in the spiritual aspects of music as well. (Jan.)