Because music touches souls.
Meet our Founder
Khushi Narayanan
Khushi’s love of music started with Disney songs at four years old, and she has been singing both professionally in competitions and nonprofessionally in school choir programs for over a decade. As a high school student in the Unionville Chadds Ford school district, she realized that singing could provide more than a pastime or an emotional cathartic release: It could bring people together and connect them under a united love for music.
The result? Symphony - a nonprofit volunteer organization with a mission of bettering the lives of the elderly population through music. By providing in-person, live-audience performances at memory care centers, Khushi ensures that her voice plays a role in making someone smile - which, in the wise words of ABBA, “takes [her] through the darkness to the break of the day”.
Music’s impact: Studies and Statistics
87% of people said that music provided enjoyment during the pandemic
That’s up to 6,960,000,000 people all at once! How cool is that?
80% of people reported music helping with their emotional wellbeing
For some, listening to music while doing self-care tasks aiding in the completion of them!
75% of people reported significant anxiety reduction after music therapy
From a 2021 meta-analysis of 32 controlled studies with over 1,900 patients with anxiety.
“Plato considered that music played in different modes would arouse different emotions, and as a generality most of us would agree on the emotional significance of any particular piece of music, whether it be happy or sad; for example, major chords are perceived to be cheerful, minor ones sad. The tempo or movement in time is another component of this, slower music seeming less joyful than faster rhythms. This reminds us that even the word motion is a significant part of emotion, and that in the dance we are moving – as we are moved emotionally by music.”
-Micheal Trimble and Dale Hesdorffer, Cambridge University