Musically Speaking A Life Through Song Dr.
Present at the creation of the modern state of Israel, she sang and danced to the new music of a new nation; as a young woman eagerly abs.
For the first ten years of her life, the comforting melodies of childhood helped drown out the anthems of Nazism to be heard elsewhere in her native Germany; as an adolescent refugee in Switzerland, she came to be aware that, however loudly she sang the patriotic songs of the land that gave her shelter, she could never truly be at home there.
By the time she was thirty, Ruth Westheimer had lived in five countries, each with a distinctive musical culture, each with a different hold on her sensibility.
Ruth invites us to share her story from a uniquely musical perspective.
In this memoir Through song, Dr.
Westheimer, one of America\'s most beloved personalities, has written a warm and contemplative book about the role music has played in her Life and the ineradicable traces it has left on her thoughts, emotions, her very being.
Ruth K.
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 Musically Speaking, Dr.
But now I have realized that there is another part to the answer.
This is certainly true.
The answer I always gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a remarkable power and influence.
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.
It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time.
Ruth finally explained the rhythm method, she\'d be talking about music? To read her is to know her, to know her is to adore her.--Harvey Fierstein Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running Through my life.
Brava!--Zubin Mehta Who would have thought that when Dr.
With her customary charm and brio, Westheimer shares with us how a Life can be shaped by music.
A real gem of a book.--Wynton Marsalis A wonderful book, both moving and delightful.
Ruth shows us how and why music functions in her life, with lessons for all of us.
It\'s an extraordinary story, her story.--Bono Dr.
Melody is something she has measured her Life on.
Ruth sees music as a kind of conscience.
Westheimer Touching and frequently witty.--Publishers Weekly Dr.
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Musically Speaking A Life Through Song Dr
