Time's echo children's fiction age 5-8 fraught existence

fraught existence

Colour photography and line drawings throughout

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781789294880

ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9798886741704

Time's echo children's fiction age 5-8 fraught existenceWhen it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of books, archives, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as culture's memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. Eichler shows how four towering composers Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich lived