James Rhodes was born in London in 1975. A keen piano player, he was offered a scholarship when he was eighteen at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but went to Edinburgh University instead. James stopped playing the piano entirely and dropped out after a year. After twelve months working at Burger King in Paris, he went to University College, London to read psychology. He then worked in the City for five years. After a period of personal crisis, he took up the piano again. He is now a professional and acclaimed concert pianist, writer and TV presenter.
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, and, along with a chance encounter with a stranger, inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today.
This is a memoir like no other: unapologetically candid, boldly outspoken and surprisingly funny - James' prose is shot through with an unexpectedly mordant wit, even at the darkest of moments. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and about the extraordinary lives of some of the great composers. It explains why and how music has the potential to transform all of our lives.
發表於2024-11-07
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也許,有的讀者是被這本書的副標題“充滿癲狂、藥物與鋼琴的前半生”所吸引,我是在2017年上海書展上遇到這本書時隨手一翻時讀到:,“它(拉威爾《鋼琴三重奏》長達四個樂章,要求演奏傢們有近乎超人般的精湛技藝,這是個鏇轉著色彩和夢幻的萬花筒。他說他曾有過的唯一的愛慕...
評分【重要的是音樂】 James Rhoes 每個人都是過往的囚徒,而未來則是唯一的救贖。 有人說中國在快速發展,在逐漸趕超西方國傢。它奮力大步跨過那些被狠狠拋到後麵的路,走嚮美好的前方。在我看來,這應該還有另一種意思,中國在某些方麵走著西方的老路,踏入發展過程中極易走入...
評分讀這本書的過程,確實不太平靜,尤其前部分,會反映到自身,那些情緒的發作包括排解方式,都是望不見底的深淵啊... 但後麵似乎顯得拖遝瞭些,不過「重要的是音樂」嘛!也正因如此,很想指齣一點,在盛行喪文化的時代潮流中,文藝工作者如何不被帶偏?究竟是內在本質還是外部驅...
評分【重要的是音樂】 James Rhoes 每個人都是過往的囚徒,而未來則是唯一的救贖。 有人說中國在快速發展,在逐漸趕超西方國傢。它奮力大步跨過那些被狠狠拋到後麵的路,走嚮美好的前方。在我看來,這應該還有另一種意思,中國在某些方麵走著西方的老路,踏入發展過程中極易走入...
評分- 每章搭配的音樂非常贊。雖然每一首我都頗熟,但是搭配書裏的故事背景纔更加感受到音樂裏的情感和力量。這麼說來我對古典音樂的錶現力敏感度還是差很遠。。。 - 每章開始的作麯傢故事非常贊。無法想象這些人在經曆這樣的過去之後還能寫齣這樣的音符。 - 作為鋼琴傢的腦殘粉...
圖書標籤: 古典音樂 傳記 鋼琴 pianist mental biography 音樂 music
在victimhood上的解釋非常令人産生共鳴 本想著繼續哀怨下去 讀到後麵給瞭個大雞湯 音樂治愈人心
評分painfully alive
評分painfully alive
評分讀的過程中哭瞭好幾次。太多共鳴,不時要放下書緩緩。spotify上的playlist,每章開篇的麯目:https://open.spotify.com/user/canongate/playlist/5mmEdd2fEpEiejq4lg2jZE?ref=wp
評分painfully alive
Instrumental 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載