The entire secret is to be found in music, from which we want to construct a completely different therapeutic system. —Nicolaus Lenau, an Austrian poet and advocate of music therapy in the 1800s Many years ago, Vincent Cavarra was fighting cancer when he bought himself a ticket to Shen Yun Performing Arts. Partway through the classical Chinese dance and music performance, the emcees explained that in ancient China, music was considered medicine, and the two Chinese characters even resemble each other. That idea struck Cavarra, who immediately wrote a note for himself, “music is for healing.” “I was very sick, I was fighting cancer. And when I heard that, I wrote it down, and from that point I listened, more and more and more,” Cavarra said. He felt a change in himself, and that night when he went home, he sought out music online that was similar to what he had heard …