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A fourth-generation harper,
Kris Snyder-you'll remember
her as Kirsten Nystrom
'85-has been a professional
arranger, composer and performer
since 1995, when she
"dropped out" from a corporate
career of teaching managers
how to hire and fire
without getting sued.
Not only was she Jess
to help relax patients who are
stressed, but so were her listeners.
Wedding clients who went who are dying. "There are
in pain, emotional turmoil or
to her Glenville, Pa., home to specific applications of rhythm
hear specific music selections and mode/key that can physically
change the individual,"
began telling her how relaxed
theyfelr. "I even had complete she says. "I like to describe it
strangers [,111 asleep in my living
room," she recalls.
bedside."
as 'prescriptive music at the
I-Ier quest to find out why Using music to ease the
certain pieces of music had dying process might seem like
such specific consistent
:1 New-Age idea, hut it was
responses prompted her to used extensively in the
attend the First International Medieval times by monks and
Harp Therapy Conference in other religious societies,
Richmond, Va., in 1997. Snyder says. She is careful to
There she learned about the remember the cultural association
of harps with heaven.
Music for Healing & Transition
Program, which she completed
for her certification 35 a post-operative patient comlllg
"I would never work with a
music practitioner in 1999. out of anesthesia without their
She now works at the Carroll prior consent," she says. "Imagine
what someone might think
Lutheran Village Dementia
Unit in Westminster. She also as they come into consciousness
hearing harp music." .
has a private practice that
takes her into hospitals and Snyder continues to enterrain
fora wide variety of
private homes at the request
of individuals
venues, including as a featured
As a certified music practitioner,
Snyder plays the harp This, her second CD with
act at First Night New York.
Have you published a bookorCD1 Send us the details and we'll
spread the news. Contact Kim Asch, managing editor, McDaniel
Col1ege,2 Col1ege Hill, Westminster, MD 21151.
Or,e·mailkasch@medaniel.edu.
lnnisfree,fenuresmusic
with two harps and n flute.
she also performs
group Generations.
with th~
Writrto: hlllisfiu, po. Box 127,
G/enville, PA 1732
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Abner's Escape
Louise /'vI. Coffmall MEt/. '65
IstBooks Lilmny, 2003
Louise Coffman MEd.'65
points Out that many stories
have been written about the
Amish who live in Lancaster
Pa., but Stories dealing
with '
other groups of Pennsylvania
Dutch are rare. This novel
the second
in the Abner se;ies
At Your Own Pace: Traveling
Your Way in Your
Motorhome, Second Edition
Bernice Beard '74, MLA'8f
ArboJ" House Publishillg
\Nritten in narrative form, the
book tells about
one couple's
emotional journey as they
drive along on their first big
advenrure
of retiremenr-r-u
five-week journey fromi\1aryland
to Arizona. More than a
travelogue, this book (with an
updated and expanded appendix)
is the perfecr
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century
Pennsylvania
Dutch country and
his Brethren Coml1lU_
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the small towns and
~:;~;;:~s,
the plot arc fiction
but historically ,
accurare,
AVlliltl"Ieolili""1I1
Bome,bNobfe
(www.bll.cl1l11)
iorroduct'v''
to mororhcming. You'll experience
daily life on the roa
and learn about the operatlon
of these homes on wheels as
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