Where a thousand patients dined beneath gilded organ pipes
In "Vox Humana," step into the forgotten world of Rhode Island's State Hospital for the Insane, where Dr. Arthur Harrington defied convention by installing a grand pipe organ in an asylum dining hall. This enigmatic narrative unveils how music became medicine in an era when mental illness was shrouded in fear and misunderstanding.
The organ stood as both instrument and monument—its gleaming pipes towering over a thousand patients who gathered daily beneath its shadow. But behind this musical marvel lies a darker tale of institutional life: shocking murders, daring escapes, and the complex humanity of those society preferred to forget.
"Vox Humana" illuminates a pivotal chapter in psychiatric history while resurrecting Harrington's lost masterpiece "Everlasting Life"—completed the night he died at his piano, his radical experiment in music therapy still unproven.
They called it "the singing hospital" — where a thousand patients dined beneath gilded organ pipes. Experience the remarkable story of the massive pipe organ installed in Rhode Island's Asylum for the Insane in 1926.
