Paul Lauzon’s new book, published by Chapel Street Editions. Available at: http://www.chapelstreeteditions.com

In When Music Happens, Paul Lauzon offers us an extraordinary personal, philosophical, and scholarly experience of the poetry of music — to which he gives the name, melopoetics. 

Rooted in his extensive life experience as a music therapist, musician/performer, poet, and educator, Lauzon, in Part One, weaves images of music throughout his title poem, “When Music Happens.” In the reference section to the poem, Lauzon shares extensive notes on key phrases in the poem, embellishing them with a vast and truly impressive extended background of information. In Part Two, Lauzon consolidates his work with the concise but comprehensive essay, “Anatomy of a Musical Being: A Music Systems Theory of Music Therapy.” 

When Music Happens is a must read for musicians, music therapists, neuroscientists, and anyone who wishes to be inspired, educated, transformed by the full mind/body/spirit experience of Paul Lauzon’s gift of poetry and scholarship. 

Elizabeth Moffitt MTA MA Faculty Emeritus of Music Therapy, Capilano University