Music & Medicine: The Longwood Chorus' Fall Concert is tonight. Join us in person or online!
Every Tuesday evening, I have the joy of leading rehearsals of The Longwood Chorus, a wonderful ensemble of 80+ members of Boston’s vibrant medical, health, and science community. Tonight is our Fall concert! So, if you’re in the area, please join us in Brookline at 7:30 p.m. (For more information, check out the poster below).
You can reserve tickets here.
And if you’re not local to Boston but would like to hear the concert, you can livestream it! Here’s the link:
About the show.
We’ll be performing Caroline Shaw’s superb 2016 work entitled To the Hands, which will feature five string players from A Far Cry, the GRAMMY-nominated chamber orchestra in Boston. We will also perform works by Francis Poulenc, Moses Hogan, Frank Ticheli, and others. I hope you can join us in person or online!
About my journey in music and medicine.
Before I went to medical school, I thought I might someday become an ear, nose, and throat doctor—specifically a laryngologist specializing in voice disorders and voice injuries. The idea was to combine my passions for choral music and singing with medicine. It turned out that ENT was not the right field for me. Among other things, while the operating room was an amazing place to learn (some of my best memories from medical school were in the OR), it just wasn’t where I saw myself in the long run. On the other hand, emergency medicine ended up being a perfect fit for a number of reasons. One of them is that the schedule (while intense) is fairly flexible, allowing me to do things like run the music side of an amazing organization like the Longwood Chorus. Working with this ensemble is truly the culmination of two of my major life interests.
You should sing!
More importantly, there’s a lot of research showing that singing has benefits. I always say that there’s a chorus for everyone. Yes, you! No matter how good or bad you think you are at singing, there’s a choral group just right for your level. And if you’re a healthcare or science student or professional in Boston, The Longwood Chorus might be yours! Here’s the audition link for our spring cycle, if that’s you: Sign up now!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Yours,
Jeremy
Are you a musician in the sciences or medical fields? Tell us about what you do in the Comments!
Oh, Jeremy, this is so wonderful to hear and share. For so many reasons. Long before I became an activist regarding healthcare issues and the rights of those who are disabled, I was (and am) a visual artist/teacher who advocated for a fully rounded education in public schools. For years I've lectured about the connection between the arts and science, let alone the healthy benefits in engaging in the arts lifelong. And if ever there was a time that we need art and music to open minds and souls to bring us together in assurance, this is it. Hope to attend virtually.
Have a wonderful concert, Jeremy!! Toi toi toi