Power of music on people and their well being has been researched and documented numerous times. CNN had an article on their front page that gives a perfect example of the power music can have on one person trying to survive in Haiti after the earthquake.

“Blind violinist Romel Joseph laid in what he called his "grave" for 18 hours…

He began to pray every hour, for 20 minutes or so, and then came his music.

First he pictured himself playing a Tchaikovsky concerto. And then every hour another concerto.

"I know I picked the Brahms, the Franz, the Sibelius. I picked several," Romel remembers. "I know a lot of concertos for violins. And I picked the longer ones."

And so as the hours passed by, and his friends tried to rescue him from the concrete debris, another prayer, and another concerto took
place below.”

Romel was finally rescued and is recovering in a hospital in Miami. Though the doctors say he may never be able to play again due to a severe hand injury, he is determined to prove them wrong.