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[piano plays]

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I have one resident
that barely opens her eyes.

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She doesn't respond.

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As much as I've tried,
I've known her for two years.

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No matter what I tried,
massage wouldn't work,

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nothing worked.

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But when we got introduced
to the iPods

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and the family told me
the things that she liked,

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it was amazing
once we put the iPod on her.

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She started shaking her feet.

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She stared moving her head.

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Her son was just amazed...

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Ok, can we stop,
'cause now I'm...

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I'm seeing her all over again.

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[piano continues]

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Hi, Poppa.

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Hi, Poppa.

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-Huh?

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-How you doin'?

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I'm all right.
Fine.

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Great.

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-Who am I?

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-I don't know.

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Wait a minute... I don't know.

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I don't know.

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-Ok, it's Sherry.

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How long has he been
in the nursing home?

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Approximately ten years.

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He was having seizures and my mother
couldn't handle him at home.

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Of course it affected him greatly

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because he was always, you know,
fun-loving, singing,

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you know, every occasion
he would come out with a song.

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No matter where he was.

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I remember as a child
he used to walk us down the street,

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me and my brother,
and he would do singing in the rain

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he would have us jumping
and swinging around poles.

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He was, you know, he was good.
He was always into music.

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You know, always loved singing..
dancing.

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-His name is Henry Dryer.

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-Uh-huh.

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-And... looking more or less
for religious music for him.

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-Ok.

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-Because he enjoys music
and he's always holding the Bible,

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so I'd rather have that for him.

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-We first see Henry inert,
maybe depressed, unresponsive,

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and almost unalive.

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-Henry?

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-Yeah?

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-Henry?

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-Yeah so?

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-I found your music.
You want your music now?

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(mumbling)

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-Ok, let's try your music, ok?

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And then you tell me
if it's too loud or not.

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-Then he is given an iPod
containing the...his favorite music.

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[singing]

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And immediately he lights up.

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His face is assumes expression,
his eyes open wide

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he starts to sing, to rock,
and to move his arms

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and he is being animated
by the music.

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-And he used to always sit
on the unit with his head like this.

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He didn't really talk
to much people

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and then when I introduced
the music to him,

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this is his reaction ever since.

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[laughs]

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[singing continues]

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-The philosopher Kant
once called music the quickening art

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and Henry is being quickened;
he is being brought to life.

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-Yeah?

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-I'm going to take the music from you
for one second, ok?

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Just to ask you a few questions... ok?

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I'm gonna give it back to you.

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-Uh-huh.

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-Ok.

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-The effect of this doesn't stop,
which when the headphones

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are taken off, Henry,
normally mute and virtually unable

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to answer the simplest
yes or no questions is quite volumable.

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-Henry.

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-Yeah?

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-Do you like the iPod;
do you like the music you are hearing?

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-Yes.

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-Tell me about your music.

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-Well, I don't (mumbling)

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-Do you like music?

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-Yeah, I'm crazy about music.

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You play beautiful music,
beautiful sound.

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-Did you play music
when you were--

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Did you like music
when you were young?

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-Yes.

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Yes, I went to big dances
and things.

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-What was your favorite music
when you were young?

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I guess, uh, Cab Calloway
was my number one band guy

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I liked--

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(scatting/mumbling)

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-What's your favorite Cab Calloway song?

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(singing)
I'll be home for Christmas

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You can count, plan on me

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With plenty of snow, mistletoe,

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presents wrapped around your tree.
Ow!

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-So in some sense,
Henry is restored to himself.

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He has remembered who he is

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and he has reacquired his identity
for a while

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through the power of music.

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What does music do to you?

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(mumbling)

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(singing)
Rosalie won't you love me.

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Rosalie won't you be sweet
and kind.

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-With this beautiful,
new technology

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you can have all the music
which is significant for you

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in something as big
as a matchbox or whatever,

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and I think this may be
very, very important

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in helping to animate, organize,
and bring a sense of identity

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back to people
who are out of it otherwise.

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Music will bring them
back into it,

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Into their own personhood,
their own memories,

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their own autobiographies.