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This exploration of the critical relationship of music, healing and
survival centers on the music of composer Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911). Christoph Eschenbach, music director of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, reveals that music helped him recover from
the trauma of World War II; Dr. Richard J. O'Reilly of
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center details how Mahler's work is being
used as part of an innovative therapy to help patients and families
learn to heal and hope; and Dr. Balfour Mount, who coined the term
"palliative care," discloses how music gives him courage as he
battles his own cancer. Eschenbach conducts students from the
Curtis Institute of Music in Mahler's First Symphony. Actor Richard
Dreyfuss provides the voice of Mahler and actress Kathleen Chalfant
narrates.