LSO on Call is a community outreach initiative that brings free chamber music directly to patients who can no longer attend concerts. The program operates across Massachusetts in hospital wards, rehabilitation centers, palliative hospices, and other healthcare facilities.With funding support from Merck Research Laboratories Boston, the program was launched in 2009 with LSO on Call: Health and Harmony in the City, a single-day city-wide project that involved over 70 musicians visiting 24 different hospitals, community health centers, hospices, and other healthcare facilities throughout the Commonwealth. During its first year, LSO on Call performances touched the lives of 500 patients in a variety of health care settings.
Sharing music is a deeply meaningful experience that can open new lines of communication between the caregiver and patient. LSO on Call performances have brought Alzheimer's patients closer to their families through the sharing of familiar songs and introduced children on the pediatric burns unit to musical instruments.Today, the Orchestra has a number of standing chamber ensembles who present free LSO on Call performances regularly across the city, while the LSO Chamber Players program offers chamber ensembles for hire for non-hospice purposes such as weddings, medical meetings and conventions.To date, LSO on
Call has reached
more than 1,000 patients in a variety of venues, including these:
For further information and to check availability, please send an email to Tobi-Ann Kocher, Director of LSO Chamber Music Programs.
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