A year and a half ago, Ernest Salisbury was committed to a mental ward in Eloise, Mich. as an alcoholic. He spent days there scribbling musical notations on scraps of paper. When the hospital's music therapists got a look at them, they found that
Ernest, who had had a little musical education, had written some simple but appealing melodies. The doctors encouraged him; he was soon writing popular songs for his new friends among the staff and forgetting his need for a drink.
Last November, with help from the therapists and a Detroit Conservatory professor, Ernest started something bigger. Last week at the...
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