And finally from us, singing for harmony.

Therapists in Boston have found a unique way to reach people hoping to overcome trauma.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports as part of our ongoing coverage of the intersection of health and arts for our Canvas series about music therapy.

One, two, three, seven, see, se in day, forth sight of us, ta, we find. The morning sing along at the greater Boston Chinatown, Golden Age Center.

Popular Chinese songs, mostly from the 1960s to 80s, formative years for the participants.

Older immigrants, now retired, most with little to know English, in many cases without family nearby. Time for fun, Anne says Mingyu

and Lao, an important form of therapy. There's a lot of value to Western medicine, but there's also the arts that brings us life.

What is life when you are living to 100 years old but without enjoyment or without connection to one another?

That's also a form of health. So in that way, yeah, music therapy can provide health.

I was a music therapist and assistant professor at Boston's Berkeley College of Music, known for educating and training top musicians, but also for 30 years for offering a different kind of training.

It feels like it's on the therapist.

For a growing profession that uses music

to address physical, emotional, cognitive and other forms of health

through a variety of clinical techniques.

With this population, Lao says,

reaching people in unexpected ways. Using music in a way to guide our conversations towards things that they don't usually talk about.

And you find that works?

That works very well because the music experience helps lower their defenses.

They don't know that they're actually processing their past experiences and actually

sharing those similar experiences with one another. They assume that each other has that, but they

don't name it. Music therapy is a chance for them to name it. The Chinatown Golden Age Center

founded in 1972 and now comprising three locations, offers

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