Reported Listener Benefits

* a deeply relaxing therapy
* pain relief
* a greater sense of peace and calm
* a way of expressing hidden emotions
* depression and insomnia relief
* uplifting and de-stressing

John Levine has vast experience as a composer and as a teacher of meditation. He believes that music has a powerful effect on the brain and can be designed to induce specific positive changes in mood and behaviour.

The idea for this particular concert first came about through John Levine’s hospice tour many years ago. John would visit care homes and hospices and play his Alphamusic to the residents, patients and staff. At the start of the concert John would ask his audience to choose three positive emotions and everyone would vote for their favourite. The emotion with the highest vote would be the title of the composition John would produce live. During the concert at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridge, a patient in the front row who voted for ‘hope', had the opportunity to hear John’s composition performed live. But halfway through, she began to shed tears until the end of the concert. When John finished playing, he was ready to apologise as he didn’t want to cause any upset, however instead the lady congratulated him because it moved her so much. So when Wendy Kent from Especially Health approached John to perform a concert, he decided to dedicate it to the memory of the terminally ill cancer patient from Arthur Rank.