Music, art help heal families torn by Newtown school massacre

By Barbara Goldberg and Ellen Wulfhorst NEWTOWN, Conn./NEW YORK (Reuters) - When 6-year-old Ana Marquez-Greene was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre almost a year ago, her father, a professional jazz musician, stopped playing his saxophone. When he could bring himself to pick it up again a month later, Jimmy Greene felt his emotional wounds start to heal and, within months, he recorded an album celebrating his daughter's life. It is one of several works of art that have risen from the depths of loss and grief at Newtown. Creative expression helps express the unspeakable - shock, loss, sorrow - when other means fail, experts say.



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