1982 Syposium on Music in the Life.

A long-awaited retrospective on the influential 1982 New York University symposium, which marked the beginning of international music therapy dialogues.

Included are excerpts from the original unpublished papers, photographs of symposium participants, interviews with participants about their memories of the gathering, and analysis of the continuing significance of the symposium dialogues 35 years after the event.

Collaboration is the underlying theme, and the structure of the symposium offers a model of how to organize a music therapy gathering with depth and relevance.

The work is dedicated to pioneers who attended the symposium and have since passed away.