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

5.0

I truly love every sentence of this book. It is so beautifully written, and I also cannot help listening to Bach's Goldberg Variations for the first time while I was reading it. I think it definitely won't be my last. I like his writing about his mom a little bit more than Bach, maybe for me, being a mom and a patient myself, it is more related to my ordinary life. I listen to my daughter's playing Bach for years while she was playing either piano or violin, and I can tell he is not her fan. But the paragraphs about grieving, or just about life itself, music in generally, oh, those words, have touched my heart so deeply!