CHURCH: Music has long been a powerful social glue. And now when forced to stay apart, it's being used to bring communities closer. As CNN's Anna Stewart reports, the lockdown play list will be hard to forget.</s>ANNA STEWART, CNN REPORTER (voice-over): Isolated at home but united by song. Led by a vicar determined to lift spirits on London's famous Portobello Road.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amen.</s>STEWART: In Paris, from balconies, from streets, a city alive with music with singers dedicating their songs to health care workers. And from an empty Milan.</s>ANDREA BOCELLI, SINGER: Amazing grace -- Reporter: Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli stunned the world in his performance, Music for Hope.</s>BOCELLI: -- how sweet the sound.</s>CHURCH: Magnificent, and it might not be as musical, but some medical workers in Boston got a big surprise from baseball legend David Ortiz.</s>DAVID ORTIZ, BASEBALL LEGEND: I got to tell you guys from the very bottom of my heart how much I love you and respect you for what you guys are doing. Taking your lives, taking your time as something that goes beyond everything. So the Red Sox are going to donate four tickets for life.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: What?</s>CHURCH: How about that? And the workers later headed to the ballpark. They threw out a ceremonial first pitch for a season like the rest of the sporting world is on hold now. Thanks for your company. Stay home, stay safe, stay strong. I'm Rosemary Church. CNN NEWSROOM continues next with Robyn Curnow. END
Music Unifies Locked Down Communities.