4 Incredible Music Organizations You Should Know About
The world can be a challenging place. From disease to poverty; from war to climate threats to the fight for equality across all interpersonal lines, we humans have got a hard row to hoe. When the going gets tough, the tough usually get something amazing going, and as much as we can hurt, we can also heal. Over the millenia we've become very good at sussing out what works when we need it to. One of the most powerful proven recuperative forces in the world, we know, is music. Oliver Sacks (RIP) knew it, Robert Burton knew it - hell, even Hippocrates and Plato knew it, and since we've had problems, we've had melodic ways of working through them. Schizophrenia. Heart disease. Brain injury. Autism. Depression. [caption id="attachment_3378" align="alignnone" width="640"]!["Play me some Doobie Brothers, won't you, Aristotle? I want to hear that funky dixieland."](http://www.youbloom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/plato.jpg)
- National Youth Orchestra of Iraq
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- Guitars 4 Vets
- Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments
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