Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

400 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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With a critic’s ear, a scholar’s erudition, and a novelist’s eye for detail, Eichler shows how four towering composers—Benjamin Britten, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Strauss—lived through the era of the Second World War and the ...

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Moods

informative 93%
reflective 87%
emotional 75%
sad 62%
challenging 43%
dark 31%
inspiring 31%
hopeful 18%
adventurous 6%

Pace

medium 71%
slow 28%

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