This event has finished Took place on: Saturday, 25th Mar 2017
Free FreeIn 1879 the young Edward Elgar took up the post of bandmaster at Worcester County and City Asylum.
The asylum physician thought music an important form of therapy and during his five years there Elgar composed a range of music for the staff band to play for patients.
Dr Rosemary Golding of The Open University examines the uses of music in asylums at this time.
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2017-03-25 2017-03-25 Europe/London Music as Therapy in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum Dr Rosemary Golding of The Open University examines the uses of music in asylums at this time. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2017/03/25/music-as-therapy-in-the-nineteenth-century-asylum-136097 Bethlem Museum of the Mind,Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent, Monks Orchard Road, BeckenhamLocation
Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent,
Monks Orchard Road,
Beckenham,
BR3 3BX
Monks Orchard Road,
Beckenham,
BR3 3BX
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