He Uses Music to Ease Others’ Pain

The author, a bass player, provides music therapy for people at the end of life and for those with dementia. Painting by Marc D'Angelo (www.marcdangelo.com).

I am a fine artist and musician and an expert in print technology. I started playing the electric bass at age 15 and played in rock n’ roll and original folk rock bands in Philadelphia and Bucks County for many years.

I moved around the U.S., working in the field of color chemistry and print production technology and finished my career in that field as a color technician. I had never once stopped playing music nor producing fine art.

While living in a midwestern state, I began to play guitar and then shortly after another move to the south, I bought and began to play the 12-string guitar. When returning to the Bucks/Montgomery County area in 1990, I returned to college to study music theory and harmony, and I graduated and began to teach music.

By this stage of my life, I had now begun to refine the many song compositions I’d written while traveling and relocating throughout the U.S. I then began to study the many jazz music artists of the two world-war eras and found myself playing the upright bass.

I continue to teach music today, and have established my own music therapy business. I present music as a therapeutic means to end-of-life patients and patients with dementia.

I have discovered that my God-given talent for making music has rewarded me and fulfilled my soul with an uplifting remuneration. Today, I still enjoy playing the bass and always enjoy meeting new players to jam with. That is why I found your site interesting. I wish to meet and make new acquaintences who share this wonderful ability to make music.

W.M.L.
Age 58
Pennsylvania