Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song
Ruth K. Westheimer, "Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song "
English | ISBN: 0812237463 | 2003 | 152 pages | EPUB | 180 KB
English | ISBN: 0812237463 | 2003 | 152 pages | EPUB | 180 KB
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked—indeed, I often wonder myself—why it is that I should always have had such joie de vivre in the face of the losses and dislocations I had to endure in my early years. The answer I always gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a remarkable power and influence. This is certainly true. But now I have realized that there is another part to the answer. And that is music."—from the introduction
Who among us does not have a song that triggers vivid memories—of jubilation, of belonging, of sorrow, of love? In
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