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Evanston Now Participants say it helps relieve stress during the pandemic. Doctors are skilled with instruments. Scalpel. Clamp. French horn. French horn? That’s right, and other instruments, musical instruments, as well. Northwestern is one of about a dozen universities nationwide with medical orchestras: med students, doctors, researchers, and alumni, all connected to both the healing arts and the performing arts. Bettina Cheung, an MD/PhD student at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and a French horn players since childhood, helped form the NU medical orchestra in early 2018. “I didn’t know what to expect,” Cheung says. What began with a dozen or so medical musicians has grown to more than fifty. “It’s bigger than we ever thought it would be.” ....
National Virtual Medical Orchestra A group of medical professionals, some of which are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic locally, aim to take the stage sort of at a world-renowned venue. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the National Virtual Medical Orchestra (NVMO), founded in May 2020 and consisting of medical professionals from across the country some of which work at Chicago area hospitals will be performing their final virtual concert of the year as part of “Live With Carnegie Hall: Music is Medicine.” The NVMO will be performing the Pas de Deux from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” You can stream for free at www.carnegiehall.com. ....