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Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer

Tina Davidson
4.34/5 (18 ratings)
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"Let Your Heart Be Broken is a consummate read in its entirety, exploring with uncommon sensitivity and poetic insight the fundamentals of love, forgiveness, creativity, and what it takes to emerge from the inner darkness into a vast vista of light, rooted in the life-tested truth that 'we are, in the end, a measure of the love we leave behind.'" —Maria Popova, The Marginalian

Tina Davidson is three-and-a-half when she is adopted from her foster home in Sweden by a visiting American professor. Soon she is the oldest of five children, living with her mother and stepfather in Turkey, Germany, and Israel. She studies music and becomes a prolific pianist and composer. But something about her birth remains unnamed and hidden. When she returns to Sweden, she contacts the Swedish adoption agency. "Come," says the voice on the phone, "I have information for you."

"an unequivocally poetic memoir on love, loss, and music" —Hugh Morris, VAN Magazine

In Let Your Heart Be Broken, Tina Davidson juxtaposes memories, journal entries, and insight into the life of an artist-and a mother-at work. Along the way, Davidson meets Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg, survives an attack by nomads in Turkey, and learns her birth father is a world-famous scientist. And throughout, there is the thread of music, an ebb and a crescendo of a journey out of the past and into the present, through darkness and into the light.

"With this memoir, Tina Davidson accomplishes something much more difficult, because it goes deeper into the soul: conveying what goes on inside when an artist - one particular artist - is creating the work, the work that both reveals herself, and escapes to become the world's, taking on a different meaning for every listener."
—Jon Sobel, Blogcritics

“Rarely does a composer tie together life events and inner creative propulsion in a narrative that speaks directly to their audience. Ms. Davidson’s music is lyrical and vulnerable, as is her voice in words.”
—Hilary Hahn, Violinist, and Grammy Winner

"Tina Davidson writes with precision and poetry."
—Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning music writer
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
322 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Boyle & Dalton
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1633376966
ISBN13:
9781633376960
kindle Asin:
B0BSLVFH24

Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer

Tina Davidson
4.34/5 (18 ratings)
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"Let Your Heart Be Broken is a consummate read in its entirety, exploring with uncommon sensitivity and poetic insight the fundamentals of love, forgiveness, creativity, and what it takes to emerge from the inner darkness into a vast vista of light, rooted in the life-tested truth that 'we are, in the end, a measure of the love we leave behind.'" —Maria Popova, The Marginalian

Tina Davidson is three-and-a-half when she is adopted from her foster home in Sweden by a visiting American professor. Soon she is the oldest of five children, living with her mother and stepfather in Turkey, Germany, and Israel. She studies music and becomes a prolific pianist and composer. But something about her birth remains unnamed and hidden. When she returns to Sweden, she contacts the Swedish adoption agency. "Come," says the voice on the phone, "I have information for you."

"an unequivocally poetic memoir on love, loss, and music" —Hugh Morris, VAN Magazine

In Let Your Heart Be Broken, Tina Davidson juxtaposes memories, journal entries, and insight into the life of an artist-and a mother-at work. Along the way, Davidson meets Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg, survives an attack by nomads in Turkey, and learns her birth father is a world-famous scientist. And throughout, there is the thread of music, an ebb and a crescendo of a journey out of the past and into the present, through darkness and into the light.

"With this memoir, Tina Davidson accomplishes something much more difficult, because it goes deeper into the soul: conveying what goes on inside when an artist - one particular artist - is creating the work, the work that both reveals herself, and escapes to become the world's, taking on a different meaning for every listener."
—Jon Sobel, Blogcritics

“Rarely does a composer tie together life events and inner creative propulsion in a narrative that speaks directly to their audience. Ms. Davidson’s music is lyrical and vulnerable, as is her voice in words.”
—Hilary Hahn, Violinist, and Grammy Winner

"Tina Davidson writes with precision and poetry."
—Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning music writer
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
322 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Boyle & Dalton
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1633376966
ISBN13:
9781633376960
kindle Asin:
B0BSLVFH24

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