Musically Speaking A Life Through Song Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
"Touching and frequently witty."--"Publishers Weekly" "Dr. Ruth
sees music as a kind of conscience. Melody is something she has
measured her life on. It's an extraordinary story, her
story."--Bono "Dr. Ruth shows us how and why music functions in her
life, with lessons for all of us. A real gem of a book."--Wynton
Marsalis "A wonderful book, both moving and delightful. With her
customary charm and brio, Westheimer shares with us how a life can
be shaped by music. Brava "--Zubin Mehta "Who would have thought
that when Dr. Ruth finally explained the rhythm method, she'd be
talking about music? To read her is to know her, to know her is to
adore her."--Harvey Fierstein "Music, I have come to realize, is
for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has
helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might
have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often
asked--indeed, I often wonder myself--why it is that I should
always have had such joie de vivre in the face of the losses and
dislocations I had to endure in my early years. The answer I always
gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a
remarkable power and influence. This is certainly true. But now I
have realized that there is another part to the answer. And that is
music."--from the introduction Who among us does not have a song
that triggers vivid memories--of jubilation, of belonging, of
sorrow, of love? In "Musically Speaking," Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer,
one of America's most beloved personalities, has written a warm and
contemplative book about the role music has played in her life and
the ineradicable traces it has left on her thoughts, emotions, her
very being. In this memoir through song, Dr. Ruth invites us to
share her story from a uniquely musical perspective. By the time
she was thirty, Ruth Westheimer had lived in five countries, each
with a distinctive musical culture, each with a different hold on
her sensibility. For the first ten years of her life, the
comforting melodies of childhood helped drown out the anthems of
Nazism to be heard elsewhere in her native Germany; as an
adolescent refugee in Switzerland, she came to be aware that,
however loudly she sang the patriotic songs of the land that gave
her shelter, she could never truly be at home there. Present at the
creation of the modern state of Israel, she sang and danced to the
new music of a new nation; as a young woman eagerly absorbing all
that Paris had to offer in the way of romance and worldliness in
the early 1950s, the songs of Edith Piaf, Mouloudji, and Yves
Montand were her tutors. An almost accidental emigration to America
brought new challenges and new stability, as she became a wife,
mother, and professional; tremendous and unforeseen celebrity came
later, and with it the giddy opportunity to indulge her love of
music as never before. Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual
therapist who pioneered the field of media therapy. She is author
of 24 books. An Adjunct Professor at New York University, she also
holds visiting appointments at Princeton and Yale. Personal Takes
2003 152 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8122-3746-7 Cloth $24.95t
16.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0835-1 Ebook $24.95t 16.50 World Rights
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