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2024-12-23
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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 評分 評分 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...
圖書標籤: 古典音樂 傳記 鋼琴 pianist mental biography 音樂 music
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
評分painfully alive
評分在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
評分聽完的。書寫得一般吧,沒什麼條理地談瞭很多感受,但這樣的人生際遇實在是不得不叫人感嘆。能遇到音樂,能遇到這樣的朋友和親人,作者還是非常幸運的。ps: Audible 是真的不太好用……
Instrumental 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載