Description
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.
Author is a respected public figure, broadcaster and composer. Shostakovich continues to enjoy huge popularity, with sell-out performances of his concerts across the world. Increasing interest in the 'musical brain' in which the profound effect of music on the brain is coming to light. Johnson explores recent findings on the subject. Publishing at the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 Russian revolution . Publication ties in with the high profile tour of the St Petersburg Symphony, the same orchestra who played during the siege of Leningrad.
About the Author
Stephen Johnson has taken part in hundreds of radio programmes and documentaries, including Radio 3's weekly 'Discovering Music' series. He is also a presenter on the Classic Arts Podcast series Archive Classics.
Reviews
'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; '... 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; 'For Radio 3 presenter and journalist, Stephen Johnson, Shostakovich's music is nothing less than a matter of life and death. Johnson, a tireless and passionate advocate of the man and his works, explores how the fraught music of Shostakovich shepherded the Soviet Union through the dark times of Stalin and the Great Patriotic War - and also helped to pull Johnson, suffering from clinical depression, out of the suicidal depths of despair.' Classical Music Magazine;
Book Information
ISBN 9781910749456
Author Stephen Johnson
Format Hardback
Page Count 172
Imprint Notting Hill Editions
Publisher Notting Hill Editions
Weight(grams) 210g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 120mm * 15mm
Author is a respected public figure, broadcaster and composer. Shostakovich continues to enjoy huge popularity, with sell-out performances of his concerts across the world. Increasing interest in the 'musical brain' in which the profound effect of music on the brain is coming to light. Johnson explores recent findings on the subject. Publishing at the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 Russian revolution . Publication ties in with the high profile tour of the St Petersburg Symphony, the same orchestra who played during the siege of Leningrad.
About the Author
Stephen Johnson has taken part in hundreds of radio programmes and documentaries, including Radio 3's weekly 'Discovering Music' series. He is also a presenter on the Classic Arts Podcast series Archive Classics.
Reviews
'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; '... 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; 'For Radio 3 presenter and journalist, Stephen Johnson, Shostakovich's music is nothing less than a matter of life and death. Johnson, a tireless and passionate advocate of the man and his works, explores how the fraught music of Shostakovich shepherded the Soviet Union through the dark times of Stalin and the Great Patriotic War - and also helped to pull Johnson, suffering from clinical depression, out of the suicidal depths of despair.' Classical Music Magazine;
Book Information
ISBN 9781910749456
Author Stephen Johnson
Format Hardback
Page Count 172
Imprint Notting Hill Editions
Publisher Notting Hill Editions
Weight(grams) 210g
Dimensions(mm) 190mm * 120mm * 15mm
