WYOMISSING, Pa. — Some of the world's astir renowned composers and the ailments that whitethorn person caused their deaths are being studied by students successful Berks County.
The unique, four-session people — called "Melodies and Maladies" — is being offered by Drexel College of Medicine astatine Tower Health successful Wyomissing. It is teaching the students astir renowned composers similar Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Beethoven and Chopin.
"We bash the biography and the diseases, illness that the composer whitethorn person been afflicted by oregon died of and however it affected his oregon her ain artistry and productivity," explained Dr. Daniel Schidlow, who teaches the class. "Last time, we did Beethoven. Beethoven had respective diseases, but the 1 everyone knows was that helium was deaf, but wherefore was helium deaf?"
Besides posing imaginable aesculapian hypotheses, Schidlow said the students indispensable besides be 1 Reading Symphony Orchestra concert.
"Some radical person ne'er been to a concert, and this was benignant of a transformative acquisition for them," said Schidlow. "It's been a large experience."
"It was truly interesting," said Abigal Murtha, a second-year aesculapian student. "I americium not truly idiosyncratic who has overmuch acquisition with composers oregon adjacent euphony arsenic a whole."
Murtha said the people is helping her and different students pat into the much originative sides of their brain.
"I deliberation being a much originative idiosyncratic is going to assistance maine some with knowing my patients amended but besides knowing diagnoses," she said.
She said the sessions are besides helping to good tune her listening skills.
"Even if it's listening to thing done a stethoscope," Murtha said, "it's truly fine-tuning that accomplishment of listening and processing however we spot and interact with the world."
Murtha said aesculapian students often person to larn astir disciplines extracurricular of their own, and those subjects, she said, tin assistance prospective doctors amended subordinate to their aboriginal patients.
"That's what I deliberation Dr. Schidlow is trying to bash here," she said.
As for Schidlow, the prof said helium loves euphony and wants to instill his passionateness for the creation onto the younger generations.
"My instrumentality is my voice," helium said. "I similar to animate different radical to get to emotion euphony arsenic well."
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