The healing power of music is best encapsulated through the exclamation that comes from people who hear some pleasant news: ‘that is music to my ears’.

The close association of music with medicine was explained with the power of prose, and poetry, by two men of medicine: eminent psychiatrist Dr Ashit Sheth, 81, and Padma Bhushan recipient Dr Farokh Udwadia, 93. The evening featured talks by both doctors, after which a documentary film called ‘Brain Makes Music’ by musician Atul Merchant and Dr Sheth was shown to the audience on Tuesday evening at the Nehru Centre in Worli.