{"product_id":"music-lessons-seven-composers-and-what-they-taught-me-isbn-9781912559879","title":"Music Lessons: Seven Composers and What They Taught Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow Shostakovich Changed My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e comes a new book about the cathartic power of music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been moments when music has confronted him with life-changing insights. Some of these have been hard to accept, but once accepted they have opened up new possibilities of thinking, feeling and living. Through an exploration of seven pieces — by Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lili Boulanger, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius and Ludwig van Beethoven — Johnson considers the lives and the intentions of the composers who created them, and how they have affected him personally.Stephen Johnson is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow Shostakovich Changed My Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taken part in several hundred radio programmes and documentaries, including BBC Radio 3’s weekly Discovering Music series, and has made numerous appearances on TV, contributing as a guest interviewee on BBC Radio 4’s coverage of The Proms, ITV’s \u003ci\u003eThe South Bank Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and on BBC1’s \u003ci\u003eThe One Show\u003c\/i\u003e. Additionally, he made an important contribution, both as commentator and narrator, to Tony Palmer’s controversial film about the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, \u003ci\u003eOh Thou Transcendent\u003c\/i\u003e, and more recently to Palmer’s film about Gustav Holst, \u003ci\u003eIn the Bleak Midwinter\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Herefordshire.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233411444965,"sku":"NP9781912559879","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781912559879.jpg?v=1767733197","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/music-lessons-seven-composers-and-what-they-taught-me-isbn-9781912559879","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}