September 2013
www.healingmuses.org
Oct. 1 Benefit Concert at Freight & Salvage News from our Newest Muses
Our two newest Board members, Marla
Fibish and Bruce Victor* shown above, together
with our Executive Director and Muse, Patrice Haan,
will be joined with other musicians in giving a concert which will benefit Healing Muses. (The concert
is a CD release which will be used as a fundraiser
for two healing music organizations.)
Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 8:00 pm: The
Freight &Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley,
CA 94704. Tickets are $20.50 in advance; $22.50 at
door. For more information or to buy tickets: www.
freightandsalvage.org/noctambenefit 510-644-2020.
*In addition to his musicanship, Bruce is also a
practicing psychiatrist and was a Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His 2008 article
about music and medicine can be downloaded from our “News
& Stories” Webpage.
Highlights of our Finances and Services:
Overall this past fiscal year (Aug. 1-July 31)
we reduced our costs of fundraising 3% and improved our funds raised as a percentage of income by 2%. Our net income for 2012/3 was
in the black, compared to 2011/2 which ran a
deficit. Our 2013/4 projected budget is $55,000 for
which we will be seeking $17,500 from donations.
We are presenting 96 hours of healing music per site
per year at two locations. In the hospital we play on 11
different wards where we serve from 10 to 40 patients,
twice that number of family and friends, and thrice that
number of support staff including doctors, nurses and
clinicians. We are seeking to expand our locations.
Margaret Davis
I am delighted to have become a Healing
Muse and to have the wonderful opportunity to
share the therapeutic sound of the harp with patients, staff, and family members. Many people have
come up and spoken to me about how much they
enjoy the harp music. A gentleman in a wheelchair
at Walnut Creek said he could feel his blood pressure lowering while he listened, a nurse at Intensive
Care wished I could stay and play all day, and another patient said that it was his most enjoyable time
in a waiting room ever. Sometimes the mere sight of
the harp seems to be healing as well -- one woman
told me "this is the perfect place for a harp," and another said "just the thought of you being here makes
me feel good." It is extremely rewarding work, and I
am glad to be part of it.
Shira Kammen
One of my favorite exchanges was my first
day at Kaiser SF, on the mezzanine, so a little more
public than the wards. I was playing a Renaissance
ground bass piece, when a security guard in uniform
came up and stood and listened for a while. When I
was finished he asked if that was a baroque piece,
and I said it was a late Renaissance repeating chord
progression with variations, and then I asked him if
he knew baroque music. He paused for a moment,
and then said something like "I'm obsessed with
French baroque opera. It's kind of a problem." Then
we discussed various French baroque operas, while
I delighted inside at the prospect of this security
guard having problems - at home maybe? Imagining him not spending time with his spouse because
he was agonizing over a modulation in Rameau or
something - it was a nice, whimsical, unlikely exchange.
And of course the short but immensely sweet
exchanges, where someone will say (as a recovering lady in the Cardiac ICU said) "Thank you. You
really raised my spirits."
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"State of the Organization"
The past year was one of growth and
change as we met the challenge of shifting from
a founder-run organization to a sustainable,
professionally led, not-for-profit. Though we had
expected this eventuality for years, the death of
our founder, Eileen Hadidian, in December 2012,
was a heavy grief to Healing Muses. Eileen’s
testimonial on behalf of this program, her creation and passion for 12 years, renewed our
commitment to making this transition and ensuring the future of Healing Muses.
Our principal focus was three-fold: to
renew and expand our musical contracts, to
develop sustainable business processes, and
to strengthen our community both inwardly and
outwardly.
In summary here is a list of what we did.
We:
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doubled the number of hours we play music in Long-term Board Members Richard Godfrey
and Jim Stickney Stepped Down in 2013
After helping Eileen
Hadidian found Healing
Muses in the early 2000’s,
Dr. Richard Godfrey
served on our Board for
over 12 years. He recently
wrote: “I was very honored
and fortunate to be on the
Board and always elevated by the spirit and dedication of each member.
Healing Muses stays in
heart just as Eileen does”.
The Rev. Jim Stickney
was Pastor of St. Alban’s
Church in Albany where
he assisted in providing
the initial concert home
wards and waiting rooms,

trained and invited two new Muses to join us in of Healing Muses. Eileen
our work,
Hadidian was then the

created board policies and procedures,
director of the Hausmusik

created Muse policies and procedures,
concert series, and to
reviewed our finances and started to make gether they helped to
adjustments to our budget in order to better make St. Albans a won
support our objectives, and
derful center for a rich va
we increased community outreach and fund
riety of musical offerings.
raising.
Jim told us: “Thereafter,
In this last we fell short of our goal; however we
thanks to Eileen’s use of
saw a tenfold increase in giving, and for that we
music as explicitly therapeutic, Healing Muses
thank everyone reading this newsletter.
emerged and spread into hospitals and healing
In the coming year
situations.”
with your help, our new
Jim had served on our Board since 2006.
board will continue to improve our finances by
We are very grateful to
strengthening our commuRichard & Jim for their
nity outreach and our fundleadership and dedicated,
raising and fee structure for
enthusiastic service to
hospitals. We seek to exHealing Muses.
pand our services into more locations and we
hope to develop an endowment to ensure that
this wonderful healing work continues far into the
future. Mostly, we look to create a vibrant supportive committed community of healing music
and presence. Thank you for journeying with us!
You can follow us on Facebook
~Patrice Haan
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Healing Muses is a nonprofit organization that has
brought soothing music to
Bay Area medical centers
for over a decade. We play
for those in need without
direct cost to patients.
Founder Eileen Hadidian’s
work with healing music
grew out of her own cancer
experience.
Eileen spoke of her
legacy:
“I am pleased that the
Board and friends of Healing Muses are carrying forward the work I envisioned
and began 12 years ago, to
offer healing music without
direct cost to patients. It is
my hope that you will continue to be a community of
support, sustaining Healing
Muses.”
Healing with Music
For centuries people have written of music’s power to aid
in healing the body and soul. More recently studies have established impressive data showing the effects of music in various
medical situations, in alleviating conditions from anxiety to
chronic pain and post-operative side effects.
Healing is different from curing; curing refers to the medical interventions which treat a disease and try to eliminate the
symptoms, whereas healing comes from within the individual and
has to do with a sense of balance and wholeness, an integration
of body, mind and spirit, a space from which even death can be
more readily accepted. ~Eileen Hadidian (founder)
You can make tax-deductible donations by mail (page
4 of this newsletter is a donation form) or through Paypal via
our Website. Buy CDs for yourself or as gifts (click the images
below for more information, use the form below to purchase
or visit our Website). Volunteer (contact Patrice to discuss
the possiblities.) Thank you for all you do!
Contact Healing Muses:
Suzanne Siebert, Newsletter Editor &
Vice President
[email protected]
Patrice Haan, Executive Director
& Muse,
[email protected]
Garden of Healing
Dolce Musica
Reflections
Please send me (all at $15/ea):
_____Garden of Healing
_____Reflections
_____Dolce Musica
_____Music for a Winter’s Eve
_____In Nova Cantica
Maureen Brennan, Muse,
[email protected]
Margaret Davis, Muse
[email protected]
CD total_______
Shira Kammen, Muse
[email protected]
Domestic shipping is $2.50 for one CD, $1 for each
additional. Please ask about international shipping costs.
Other Healing Muses Board
Members:
Kate Chaitin, President
John Harris, Treasurer
Marla Fibish, Secretary
Bruce Victor
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