How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
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Published: 26/03/2020
ISBN: 9781910749456
Extent: 172 pages

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind is also part of the 3-book giftset, Inspiration, which can be found here.

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

Author: Stephen Johnson

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Winner of the 2021 Rubery Book Award

Music broadcaster and composer Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich’s music took shape under Stalin’s reign of terror, and how it gave form to the hopes and fears of an oppressed people. Johnson writes of the healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness and tells of how Shostakovich’s music lent him unexpected strength in his struggle with bipolar disorder.

Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Johnson paints a compelling picture of one man’s music and its power to validate and sustain another man’s life.

'How Shostakovich Changed My Mind is one of the most powerful, honest, and profound revelations that exists on what it is that music means and does: it’s just an essential document.’
Tom Service, Presenter, Music Matters
‘I started reading and was hooked. Within a few pages I knew I had fallen into the company of the most wonderful interlocutor. Stephen Johnson take the reader from the most profound meditations on music, to delicious anecdotes about Shostakovich, to penetrating observations about the nature of art and the way it may rescue us from despair. I finished it inspired by a sense of human possibility.’
Professor Raymond Tallis
‘Stephen Johnson is one of our most sensitive and thoughtful music critics, and this book, written from the heart about a composer whom he loves and admires, will prove be a landmark.’
Sir Roger Scruton

 

Published: 26/03/2020
ISBN: 9781910749456
Extent: 172 pages

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind is also part of the 3-book giftset, Inspiration, which can be found here.

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Winner of the 2021 Rubery Book Award

Music broadcaster and composer Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich’s music took shape under Stalin’s reign of terror, and how it gave form to the hopes and fears of an oppressed people. Johnson writes of the healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness and tells of how Shostakovich’s music lent him unexpected strength in his struggle with bipolar disorder.

Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Johnson paints a compelling picture of one man’s music and its power to validate and sustain another man’s life.

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Weight 0.25 kg
Dimensions 19 × 12 × 1.5 cm
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Hardcover, Paperback

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