Did you know that for over 20 years the PSO has performed concerts at the Allegheny Valley School (AVS)? AVS is a nonprofit that offers “community residential environments and therapeutic programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”[i] Ever since August 1993, the PSO has regularly visited AVS’ Pittsburgh campus to share […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...What are you doing between 7:15 and 8:15 a.m. tomorrow? If you don’t have any plans, we’d love to have you come to our next yoga and classical music event at Bend Yoga! Once again, instructor Molly Tighe will lead a morning yoga workout to the beautiful melodies of classical music. We’ll plan on […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Last Wednesday we debuted our second classical music playlist for Bend Yoga during Molly Tighe’s All Levels Yoga class. If you missed the class, you can access the Spotify playlist here. Molly and I chose songs for the playlist based on their tempi, just as we did with our first playlist in October; however, this […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...We have several items to share with you today. Item number one relates to last week’s post about music therapists. It is a video that the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) recently shared on its Facebook page. Watch the video to learn about the hospital’s music therapists, Deborah Benkovitz and Nicole Steele, and their […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...As you may know, last week we held a special event at Bend Yoga when Molly Tighe, PSO Archives Consultant and Bend Yoga instructor, taught yoga to a soundtrack of classical music. In preparation for the class, Molly helped me create a playlist that would help us stay focused and mirror our level of […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This week we have a special announcement! Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, October 23, Molly Tighe, the PSO’s Archives Consultant and a certified yoga instructor, will lead a yoga session to classical music from 7:15-8:15 a.m. at Bend Yoga. Molly’s weekly class, “All Levels Yoga,” is a flow class for beginning to advanced students. Visit the […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This week we’re going to take a break from our Music and Exercise series to share a little bit about some of the recent work that we’ve done with Music and Wellness at the PSO. We’d especially like to share some photos from our most recent visit to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of […]
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