Andrew Schulman. (2016). Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul. Picador.

Andrew Schulman. 2016. Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul. Picador.

Andrew Schulman, Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul. Picador, 2016.

Andrew Schulman. Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul. Picador, 2016.

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   • bioText: ANDREW SCHULMAN is the Medical Musician/Critical Care at Berkshire Medical Center and the first Certified Medical Musician admitted as a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is the founder and artistic director of the Abaca String Band, which has performed throughout the United States, and also a solo guitarist who has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the White House, and the Improv Comedy Club, among many others. Schulman lives in New York City with his wife, Wendy, and their dog, Phoebe. He is the author of Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul.
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An Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year Selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Life "Best First Book" Award, and a People Magazine Pick in nonfiction.
The astounding story of a critically ill musician who is saved by music and returns to the same hospital to help heal others
Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional guitarist, had a close brush with death on the night of July 16, 2009. Against the odds—and with the help of music—he survived: a medical miracle.
Once fully recovered, Andrew resolved to use his musical gifts to help critically ill patients at Mount Sinai Beth Israel's ICU. In Waking the Spirit, you'll learn the astonishing stories of the people he's met along the way—both patients and doctors—and see the incredible role music can play in a modern hospital setting.
Schulman expertly weaves cutting-edge research on neuroscience and medicine, as well as what he's learned as a professional musician, to explore the power of music to heal the body and awaken the spirit.

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   • source: John Kralik, author of 365 Thank Yous
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     "Waking the Spirit is an inspiring story that teaches many important spiritual lessons, but the principal one is that to give thanks, you have to give. By healing others, he healed himself. You will never listen to music in the same way again."

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   • source: Caroline Stoessinger, author of A Century of Wisdom
   • content: "An inspiring personal story of the ageless power of music to comfort and to heal supported with plentiful compelling scientific evidence."
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   • source: Liona Boyd, author of In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music
   • content: "Andrew Schulman has chronicled his amazing journey in a book that should be read by everyone, not only by doctors, caregivers and musicians. 'Waking the Spirit' recounts Andrew's own miraculous recovery in an ICU when he was literally brought back to life. His profound discoveries related to healing and self healing through music will astound the reader. As a classical guitarist and composer I have witnessed music's power to heal, but nothing as dramatic as what the author, facing death, has been able to reveal."
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   • source: No Depression, Journal of Roots Music
   • content: "In the grand tradition of Oliver Sacks'Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Schulman cannily narrates stories of the ways that music can bring healing not only to the broken spirit but also to the broken body."
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     May 9, 2016
     In this inspirational memoir, Schulman tells of the healing power of music. After Schulman slips into a medically induced coma following complications from surgery for pancreatic cancer, his wife, Wendy, plays Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for him through earbuds and his vital signs stabilize. As a result of his own experience, Schulman, a classical guitarist, resolves to return to the surgical ICU with his guitar as a way of giving something to patients in a situation similar to his own. One woman for whom Schulman plays—he calls her Alice Blue Gown because of her blue nightgown—is in a coma and appears to be unresponsive to his chords, but two days later, she’s out of ICU, and she confirms that the music reached her and helped her heal. Another patient, Deena, is married to Ernie Harburg, son of Yip Harburg, who wrote “Over the Rainbow” with Harold Arlen; when Schulman plays songs by the Gershwins and Harburg and other works from the Great American Songbook, she connects with her past through music. The narrative can be repetitive, but Schulman nicely describes the healing effect that music can have. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Marly Rusoff & Assoc.

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     June 1, 2016
     A near-death survivor and career musician demonstrates the true healing power of music. In his heartfelt chronicle of unorthodox medicine, professional guitarist Schulman celebrates his sixth year as resident musician in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital. His own journey began years earlier when, at 57, he was admitted to the same ward as a terminal "Code Blue" patient with circulatory collapse following a routine pancreatic tumor excision. Along with the bedside presence of his wife, Wendy, also a professional musician, was an iPod loaded with Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Ellington, and the Beatles. It was, writes the author, "all the music that moved my heart"--just the thing to help him cope and sooth his spirit. Schulman miraculously survived his ordeal, escaping with only minor brain damage. He swiftly decided to redirect his music career toward patient care as a "medical musician" in the same ward where he was a patient just months prior. With a winning combination of anecdotal bedside stories, personal experience, and the research of neuroscientists, neuromusicologists, and fellow musicians, the author offers evidence of the calming, stabilizing, and synchronous ("entrainment") physical effects music therapy can have on a patient's nervous system, pain, and overall health. Though his own work in the ward was not without its share of trial and error, Schulman's innate intuitive skills (brain surgery patients were treated to Bach first) and compassionate demeanor made him an integral part of the hospital staff. The author considers his proactive role in patient care and his own astounding recovery to have both been beautifully transformed "by the bridge that music creates between the healthy and the sick." An inspirational testament to the limitless benefits of music and its role in health care.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     July 1, 2016
     Schulman was a fiftysomething guitarist when, on the night of July 16, 2009, he almost died after complications following pancreatic surgery for what was initially thought to be a malignant mass. After he was put in a medically induced coma, no one expected him to survive. But he did. Some even called him a medical miracle. But 12 days in the hospital took its toll. The slightest movement of his fingers took a huge effort, yet, miraculously, he could still play the guitar, although he could only remember six pieces of musicall learned before he was 20. Everything else had to be rememorized. Today, he is a resident musician in the surgical intensive-care unit at Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City, where he almost lost his life. Now he plays his guitarBach and the Beatles being among his favoritesat the bedsides of critically ill patients, referring to himself as a medical musician. Schulman offers deeply moving testament to resiliency, perseverance, and growing recognition of the genuine healing power of music.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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     March 1, 2016
     

     After professional guitarist Schulman was pulled back from death in July 2009 by a medical miracle, he opted to become the resident musician in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at New York's Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, where he brings music--and hence joy and healing--to critically ill patients. Interested readers may have seen Josh Aronson's documentary short Andrew & Wendy, which aired on PBS last year.

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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The astounding story of a critically ill musician who is saved by music and returns to the same hospital to help heal others
Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional guitarist, had a close brush with death on the night of July 16, 2009. Against the odds—and with the help of music—he survived: a medical miracle.
Once fully recovered, Andrew resolved to use his musical gifts to help critically ill patients at Mount Sinai Beth Israel's ICU. In Waking the Spirit, you'll learn the astonishing stories of the people he's met along the way—both patients and doctors—and see the incredible role music can play in a modern hospital setting.
Schulman expertly weaves cutting-edge research on neuroscience and medicine, as well as what he's learned as a professional...

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