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By using music as a therapeutic tool, however, for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease because of physicians and psychiatrists are now able to aid the the positive social effects it has on the brain. A color guard and drum corps instructor and administrator, Lynn minds and bodies of a variety of different medical patients. Lindstrom is best known as the founding executive director of “Music can shift mood, manage stress-induced agitation, stimulate In a groundbreaking 2010 study by the Boston University Alzheimer’s Winter Guard International (now WGI Sport of the Arts). EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT positive interactions, facilitate cognitive function, and coordinate motor Disease Center, Alzheimer’s patients learned more information when BY ELIZABETH GELI & EMILY MONEYMAKER movements,” according to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. words were set to music instead of just spoken. Researcher Brandon Ally “Her legacy will continue in hundreds of gymnasiums each says that the study findings could help patients with practical day-to-day new era of education began on Dec. 10, 2015, when President Barack Saturday night between January and April as future generations A study published in Geriatrics Gerontology International in 2016 care such as remembering to take their medicine. A Obama signed into law the “Every Student Succeed Act” (ESSA), discover what us older folks already know and love,” said Ron introduced a new regimen of cognitive stimulation, including music replacing the previous administration’s “No Child Left Behind Act.” The Nankervis, WGI’s current executive director on WGI.org. “By therapy, once a week for patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease “Even in the late stages of Alzheimer’s, a person may be able to tap a beat new law allows states to customize their curriculum and improvement anyone’s measure, she more than succeeded. We are all the better in Korea. or sing lyrics to a song from childhood,” according to the Alzheimer’s plans, reducing the students’ and teachers’ burden of frequent for having known Lynn Lindstrom, and WGI is the organization Association. “Music provides a way to connect, even after verbal standardized testing. it is today … all because of her.” “Music therapy involved playing melodies and/or accompanying chords communication has become difficult.” ESSA is particularly important legislation for music education although it covers all subjects. Music and arts are now eligible for Title I funds and listed as core subjects. diverse and creative,” Sgouros says. “I put my scholarship award toward PERCUSSION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS my tuition for school. I just want to say thank you for the scholarship “For the first time, Congress has recognized the fundamental importance BY CLINTON CORREA again. I always love playing Yamaha instruments.” of music as part of a well-rounded education,” said Michael Butera, DRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL. CORPS DRUM executive director and CEO of the National Association for Music very year Yamaha and the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) give Lynn Bill The other scholarship winner, Jade Hails, received a $500 scholarship Education (NAfME) in a press release. “This legislation will allow our Lindstrom Howard several scholarships to up-and-coming percussionists. COURTESY OF WGI SPORT OF THE ARTS. SPORT OF WGI COURTESY OF COURTESY E that allowed him to attend the Percussive Arts Society International members greater opportunities to orchestrate success for students in the Convention (PASIC) in November 2015. classroom every day.” Lindstrom and her husband, George, were instrumental in Emily Sgouros, a percussion major at The New School for Jazz and welcoming indoor percussion to the WGI activity. She died in late Contemporary Music in New York, received the PAS/Yamaha Terry “This scholarship gave me a great opportunity to go to PASIC and ESSA also prevents students who are struggling in other subjects from January at the age of 76 from cancer. Gibbs Vibraphone Scholarship for $1,000. just envelop myself in a totally new percussion world that I hadn’t being pulled out of music and arts classes to participate in remedial experienced,” says Hails, a percussion