How Shostakovich changed my mind / Stephen Johnson.

"I sensed the glimmering of a possibility. If Shostakovich could find the 'method', the thread of logic, in his teeming, cascading thoughts, then perhaps I could too."--Text on front cover.

"Music broadcaster and composer Stephen Johnson explores how Shostakovich's music took shape under Stalin's reign of terror, and how it gave form to the fears and hopes of an oppressed people. Johnson writes of the healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness and tells of how Shostakovich's music lent him unexpected strength in his struggle with bipolar disorder. Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Johnson paints a compelling picture of one man's music and its power to validate and sustain another's man's life"--Back cover.

Honiton, Devon : Notting Hill Editions, 2018.

xii, 155 pages ; 19 cm.

First edition. Numbered 0318 of 1500.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155).