News & Stories

Happy Holidays from Stories Love Music! What a year it has been and we are committed to bringing more Stories Love Music to more people in 2017. I would love to hear from you. Have a peaceful and prosperous new year ahead. Much love, Ilyana

Hello and welcome back to the Stories Love Music blog. Over the last few months we have led our program for big and small groups in memory assistance facilities and with individuals in their private residence here in the New York area. So many great moments happen in...

Hello again! I Hope you have had a great summer. I have been traveling, spending precious time with family and re-charging for the fall season ahead. I would love to share a story from the field. One of my private clients with Alzheimer's, whom I do one on one Stories...

Hello and Happy Spring! Latest News: With the additional grant from MAC (Maintaining Active Citizens), that Stories Love Music received this year, I was able to hit the road again and bring my program to another group of care givers in Maryland. Yet again, it was...

I was invited to observe at a special event at the Jewish Museum called JM Journeys. It was only for those with memory impairment and their care givers. The special exhibit at the museum right now, was Issac Mizrahi's Fashion exhibit. While standing and looking at...

Welcome. This site and blog is a place for all of us, for those of you have been a part of one of my Stories Love Music training sessions especially! This is the place to ask questions, leave comments and tell stories about how you have utilized music as a doorway...

I am so pleased to announce that Stories Love Music, is the recipient of another grant. Great thanks to MAC Center in Maryland and The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, for their support of this program. This grant will make possible: Stories Love Music...

Hello! Thought it was time for an update on what Stories Love Music has been up to so far in 2016. We have been in the field conducting Stories Love Music sessions with elders with memory impairment. These sessions have been filled with miracles and I don't use that...

Happy New Year! What a year 2015 was for Stories Love Music. The grant we received allowed us to bring Stories Love Music to groups of both professional and family care givers in Maryland. The workshops were amazing and again reminded me, that the women and men who...