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| Touching Stories, Moving Music Make This Book Impossible to place Down |
Stories of Music gives the reader (listener? viewer?) an emotionally satisfying journey through the planet of music, as Holly E. Tripp weaves together the stories of quite 40 authors and artists, from 11 countries, telling in their own words and mediums how music has impacted their lives. I found it to be a really emotionally moving book.
Having grown up within a musical family, Tripp was fascinated by stories of her great-grandmother, especially the one where she held "jam sessions" through a telephone party line. Her own parents gave Tripp a guitar when she was 16 and she or he has been writing and playing music ever since. But it had been after the overtime of her brother that she fully realized the impact music has on emotions - and healing - because the songs that kept coming to her somehow brought him closer to her, and helped her affect his death.
When she began this book Tripp says she put out a involve submissions from authors and artists, thinking she'd be lucky if she got 100. Instead, quite 1,000 poured into her inbox, and she or he carefully chose those which she felt represented people universally, and best told the impact that music has on individuals to supply fun, hope, healing, and impact on their lives. The result's an interactive, multi-media book that contains stories, poems, photographs, and music and videos that the readers can hear and watch on their mobile devices.
I love how the anthology is laid out. the primary poem (which I listened to the poet read aloud) talks about music weaving through generations in an old home. Then the stories advance through time, with artists' stories from their childhood, through adulthood, of how music has impacted their lives. My favorite photograph lies at the top of the book, of an aged pair of hands clutching musical composition . "Music," Tripp says, "... transcends religion, race, language, and even time."
There are fun stories of music and children; a strong poem about Civil Rights marches; and a story on how music helps an artist's home country of Bosnia heal after war. There are the impactful stories of bringing Mozart's music into a jail and using rock 'n' roll to assist heal depression. and there is the history of traveling musicians, from the beginnings of your time to a gaggle who currently participates within the Massachusetts Walking Tour per annum . Another story (with included music) of a cellist - which bridges generations through Saint-Saëns' "Le Cygne" - is gorgeous to read and hear . It's nearly impossible to select a favourite , but i used to be really touched by the story of an interview with Glen Campbell shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011.
Stories of Music may be a wonderful book, which I found hard to place down. there have been times when it had me in tears at the moving samples of how music touched - and lots of times saved - lives. It also made me smile, together artist describes how kids in Haiti enthusiastically play music after their meal, even more excited about the music than the food.
Tripp has done a wonderful job of bringing music to life, and showing that music indeed, does speak a universal language. regardless of what country or background, what religion or political persuasion, the artists during this book all have one thing in common: music impacts their lives, and that they use it to speak their hearts.
I would recommend this book to anyone, musician or non-musician. Tripp plans to publish a second volume, and that i can't wait to read it.
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