A review by vivacissimx
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott

4.0

Two parallel threads run through this book, the "Bach" and the "Mother" respectively. As someone who knows almost nothing about the science of music there were parts of this that were hard to read, but as someone who was invested in completing this book, I nonetheless found the extended metaphors appropriate/understandable for the music philistine audience.

The author is my favorite art critic at WaPo, the newspaper I've read since childhood, so I was eager to read this. Having a more intimate view, sans art criticism, was exactly what I signed up for. And he delivered.