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Joshua Pearl' 19 learned about the therapeutics of music in the hardest possible way: He was afflicted with an autoimmune disease that caused him severe pain. He turned to the piano as a form of treatment, and it helped lessen the need for painkillers he had been prescribed. Recognizing that music could do for others what it did for him, Pearl became a music therapist.

Writing music gives youth opportunity to create and connect.

Music therapy major Andrea Eitner '17 explores the uses of music therapy in the NICU — and finds a career aspiration.