{"id":266306,"date":"2025-09-30T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266306\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:53:07","slug":"cello-violin-students-provide-comfort-for-humane-society-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266306\/","title":{"rendered":"Cello, violin students provide &#8216;comfort&#8217; for Humane Society pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs and cats at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/02\/25\/kind-kids-jacksonville-humane-society-recognizes-young-volunteers\/80054137007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacksonville Humane Society<\/a> were recently serenaded by eight cello and two violin performers.<\/p>\n<p>For the third year, local music teacher Sabrina Calandro and a group of her adult and youth students performed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxhumane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shelter pets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music has the ability to inspire, comfort and bring joy to the performer and the audience,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/entertainment\/arts\/2025\/08\/30\/courtney-lewis-conducted-orchestras-on-two-continents-this-summer\/85765776007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classical music<\/a> can reduce stress in animals, according to the society, and the &#8220;cello can be especially calming, as its range and tones are similar to the human voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/guest\/2025\/07\/10\/as-funding-gaps-widen-floridas-youth-arts-programs-most-at-risk-opinion\/84504112007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youth performers<\/a>, Julie Mallow, said, &#8220;I feel bad that I can\u2019t adopt them all, but this is one way I can help them. It\u2019s so nice seeing them all enjoy the music and fall asleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This partnership \u2026 allows us to provide meaningful enrichment for our animals while also engaging the community,&#8221; society CEO Lawrence Nicolas said.<\/p>\n<p>bcravey@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4109<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dogs and cats at the Jacksonville Humane Society were recently serenaded by eight cello and two violin performers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[647,5229,4749,21202,17969,648,4653,90824,1576,4654,22172,171,3188,723,138895,7310,425,666,975,44449,138897,50,450,1457,7926,1451,32134,4644,138896,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,4748],"class_list":{"0":"post-266306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-animal","11":"tag-animal-shelters","12":"tag-animal-welfare","13":"tag-arts","14":"tag-cats","15":"tag-classical","16":"tag-classical-music","17":"tag-dogs","18":"tag-emotional","19":"tag-entertainment","20":"tag-fl","21":"tag-florida","22":"tag-instruments","23":"tag-jacksonville","24":"tag-local","25":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","26":"tag-music","27":"tag-musical","28":"tag-musical-instruments","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-positive","32":"tag-pets","33":"tag-positive","34":"tag-shelters","35":"tag-stress","36":"tag-stress-emotional","37":"tag-u0026","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-united-states-of-america","40":"tag-unitedstates","41":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","42":"tag-us","43":"tag-usa","44":"tag-welfare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}