Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing - Couverture rigide

Cutting, Linda Katherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060187301 ISBN 13 : 9780060187309

Editeur : Harpercollins, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Cutting Linda Katherine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"There are three kinds of memory slips, I tell my students. One, when Memory slips but you find your way back without losing a beat. Two, when you don't find your way back until the downbeat. Three, when you don't find your way back in time and must stop and restart the music. I don't tell them about a fourth possibility , when one memory slips, another intrudes and you don't find your way back for a very long time." -- from Memory Slips

Linda Katherine Cutting's memoir of family and music movingly portrays the trauma and recovery of a woman whose childhood was betrayed by those who were supposed to protect her. In exquisite prose she illuminates the inner life of a child for whom the gift of music was the only refuge, a refuge that protected her as long as it could. For when Linda began to remember what her father had done to her and her brothers -- both eventual suicides -- she stopped being able to remember Beethoven's notes.

Linda Cutting's writing bears witness to what had occurred. Her stunning "Hers" column, originally printed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in October 1993, was clipped and carried in wallets and pocketbooks and reprinted around the world. Now, her memoir Memory Slips, will not only reach out and give voice to victims of abuse but also move anyone who cares about the power of writing, the beauty of music and the innocence of children.

"In her writing, Linda Cutting displays the same grace, thoughtfulness and talent that she's always brought to her music-making. With courageous candor, Linda has shone light into the darker corners of her own compelling life, and we, the readers, are richer for it." --John Williams, Academy Award-winning composer and conductor laureate, The Boston Pops Orchestra

"This is a mesmerizing story about the loss of music and innocence and -- very nearly -- the self; and the subsequent recovery of all those things. It is testimony to the power of Linda Cutting's writing that the same book that tears at your heart can, in the end, make it rise up with gladness." --Elizabeth Berg, author of Talk Before Sleep, Range of Motion and The Pull of the Moon

Biographie de l'auteur :

Linda Katherine Cutting's "Her's" column was included in the Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women. As a pianist she has performed throughout the United States in solo and chamber music concerts and as a soloist with various orchestras. She has performed on numerous occasions with the Boston Pops Orchestra. A graduate of Whitworth College and the New England Conservatory of Music, she also attended Harvard University, the Aspen Music School, and Ernen Musikdorf. She currently teaches at the Longly School of Music in Cambridge. She has recently returned to the concert stage.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harpercollins
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060187301
• ISBN 13: 9780060187309
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240