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Patients, Caregivers, and Medical Professionals Enjoy a ‘Wealth of Spectacular Music’ at Chords for Cancer Concert

April 22, 2024

Patients, Caregivers, and Medical Professionals Enjoy a ‘Wealth of Spectacular Music’ at Chords for Cancer Concert

Music can soothe, sustain, and inspire. There’s evidence that it can even heal, as well as provide support through the rigors of therapy.

For people living with cancer, their families and friends, their medical providers, and others, an hour of the string music of Felix Mendelssohn offered an oasis of calm amid their journeys.

The Chords for Cancer event, held April 17 at Bruce Schroffel Auditorium at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, was sponsored by the University Of Colorado Cancer Center, where many of those on hand are being treated.

Eight musicians from the Colorado Symphony, which is celebrating its 100th season, played Mendelssohn’s String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, for the audience.