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

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

How do you review a book covering the impact of WWII and the Holocaust on four different composers coming from four different vantage points (physically and philosophically), and their impact in return on their world and ours now as an inevitable result? Do you cover the lyrical, novel-esque prose of the author? Do you wax rhapsodic about how frightfully easy it is to find yourself in each of the varying life stories? Do you recommend that while reading it, to put on the pieces being discussed in each chapter in your actual background? I'm thinking you do it a little bit like that. Wonderful read -- challenging because the subject is challenging -- but it's worth the discomfort, and through it all there is hope, compassion, and many critical lessons to learn.