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The train in the night a story of music and loss

Coleman, Nick more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publication Date: 15/02/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. The "Train in the Night" is an account of one man's struggle to recover from the loss of his greatest passion in life - and to go one step further than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about and feel music. Of all our relationships with art, the one we enjoy with music is the most complex, the most mysterious and, for reasons that cannot be explained by science alone, the most emotionally charged. Nothing about that relationship is simple. And yet it is perhaps through music that we make the most intimate contact with our sense of who we really are, at our most naked, unsophisticated, honest, and simplified. Through psalms, symphonies, love songs, ballads, boogie.