How Shostakovich Changed My Mind hardcover english - 14 May 2019

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ISBN 13: 9781910749456
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Book Description: Bbc music broadcaster stephen johnson explores the power of shostakovich's music during stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes shostakovich's music helped him survive the trials and assaults of bipolar disorder.'there's something about hearing your most painful emotions transformed into something beautiful...' the old russian who uttered those words spoke for countless fellow survivors of stalin's reign of terror. And the 'something beautiful' he had in mind was the music of dmitri shostakovich.Yet there is no escapism, no false consolation in shostakovich's greatest music: this is some of the darkest, saddest, at times bitterest music ever composed. So why do so many feel grateful to shostakovich for having created it - not just russians, but westerners like stephen johnson, brought up in a very different, far safer kind of society? How is it that music that reflects pain, fear and desolation can help sufferers find - if not a way out, then a way to bear these feelings and ultimately rediscover pleasure in existence? Johnson draws on interviews with the members of the orchestra who performed shostakovich's leningrad symphony during the siege of leningrad, during which almost a third of the population starved to death. In the end, this book is a reaffirmation of a kind of humanist miracle: that hope could be reborn in a time when, to quote the writer nadezhda mandelstam, there was only 'hope against hope'.
Editorial Review: ... An intensely readable, highly personal analysis of the major works of a composer, who, mr. Johnson decides, has recorded a collective experience for an all-inclusive listenership ... All great music teeters the edge of madness. This troubled writer makes a convincing case that the music of dmitri shostakovich helped to save his mind. In life's crises, he suggests, each of us comes up against an internal siege of leningrad, and music comes to your relief." --norman lebrecht, the wall street journal "... Palpably humane, sensitive, and breathably erudite ... How shostakovich changed my mind is ... A deeply felt and well-considered work -- and anyone who cares about music, the mind, or personal struggle can learn from its depths." --nicholas cannariato, npr
About the Author: Stephen Johnson has taken part in several hundred radio programmes and documentaries, including Radio 3's weekly Discovering Music series. He is also presenter on the Classic Arts podcast series Archive Classics. Stephen has made numerous appearances on TV, contributing as guest interviewee on BBC4 coverage of The Proms, ITV's The South Bank Show, and more recently on BBC1's The One Show. He also made an important contribution, both as commentator and narrator, to Tony Palmer's controversial film about the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, Oh Thou Transcendent, and more recently to Palmer's film about Gustav Holst, In the Bleak Midwinter
Language: English
Author: Stephen Johnson
Publication Date: 14 May 2019
Number of Pages: 176