Musically Speaking : : A Life Through Song / / Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer.
"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 su...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Personal Takes
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780812208351 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)449618 (OCoLC)979881185 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2003 1 online resource (152 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Personal Takes Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Dear bird fly on -- 2. Thoughts are free -- 3. Our hope is not lost -- 4. Je ne regrette rien -- 5. If i can make it there -- Coda -- Authors`s note -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "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 introductionWho 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.Always, the classical repertoire of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms has drawn Westheimer to a German culture that has belonged-and not belonged-to her throughout her life. And always, the music of the Jewish tradition has given her strength and comfort beyond words.Affording a view of Dr. Ruth from a rare private vantage point, Musically Speaking offers wondrous testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. This is a book full of color, verve, humor, and wisdom, unfolding gracefully through the beloved music of the Jewish holidays, the lullabies of childhood, the songs that sustained an orphan and roused the courage of a young woman, the melodies that enable a widow grieving for her husband to recall, from deep within the years of love, companionship, and happiness. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Autobiography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. bisacsh Biography. Jewish Studies. Music. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History 9783110413472 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812237467 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208351 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208351 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208351/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., |
spellingShingle |
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / Personal Takes Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Dear bird fly on -- 2. Thoughts are free -- 3. Our hope is not lost -- 4. Je ne regrette rien -- 5. If i can make it there -- Coda -- Authors`s note -- Acknowledgments |
author_facet |
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., |
author_variant |
d r k w drk drkw d r k w drk drkw |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., |
title |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / |
title_sub |
A Life Through Song / |
title_full |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. |
title_fullStr |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. |
title_auth |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Dear bird fly on -- 2. Thoughts are free -- 3. Our hope is not lost -- 4. Je ne regrette rien -- 5. If i can make it there -- Coda -- Authors`s note -- Acknowledgments |
title_new |
Musically Speaking : |
title_sort |
musically speaking : a life through song / |
series |
Personal Takes |
series2 |
Personal Takes |
publisher |
University of Pennsylvania Press, |
publishDate |
2013 |
physical |
1 online resource (152 p.) Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Overture -- 1. Dear bird fly on -- 2. Thoughts are free -- 3. Our hope is not lost -- 4. Je ne regrette rien -- 5. If i can make it there -- Coda -- Authors`s note -- Acknowledgments |
isbn |
9780812208351 9783110413458 9783110413472 9783110459548 9780812237467 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208351 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208351 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208351/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
600 - Technology |
dewey-tens |
610 - Medicine & health |
dewey-ones |
616 - Diseases |
dewey-full |
616.85/83/0092 |
dewey-sort |
3616.85 283 292 |
dewey-raw |
616.85/83/0092 |
dewey-search |
616.85/83/0092 |
doi_str_mv |
10.9783/9780812208351 |
oclc_num |
979881185 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT westheimerdrruthk musicallyspeakingalifethroughsong |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)449618 (OCoLC)979881185 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Musically Speaking : A Life Through Song / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
_version_ |
1770176427496308736 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>06143nam a22007935i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780812208351</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20220424125308.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220424t20132003pau fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780812208351</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.9783/9780812208351</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)449618</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)979881185</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">pau</subfield><subfield code="c">US-PA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">BIO022000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">616.85/83/0092</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Westheimer, Dr. Ruth K., </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Musically Speaking :</subfield><subfield code="b">A Life Through Song /</subfield><subfield code="c">Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Philadelphia : </subfield><subfield code="b">University of Pennsylvania Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2013]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2003</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (152 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Personal Takes</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Overture -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1. Dear bird fly on -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2. Thoughts are free -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3. Our hope is not lost -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4. Je ne regrette rien -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5. If i can make it there -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Coda -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Authors`s note -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">"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 introductionWho 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.Always, the classical repertoire of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms has drawn Westheimer to a German culture that has belonged-and not belonged-to her throughout her life. And always, the music of the Jewish tradition has given her strength and comfort beyond words.Affording a view of Dr. Ruth from a rare private vantage point, Musically Speaking offers wondrous testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. This is a book full of color, verve, humor, and wisdom, unfolding gracefully through the beloved music of the Jewish holidays, the lullabies of childhood, the songs that sustained an orphan and roused the courage of a young woman, the melodies that enable a widow grieving for her husband to recall, from deep within the years of love, companionship, and happiness.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Autobiography.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Autobiography.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Biography.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Jewish Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Music.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110413458</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Penn Press eBook Package World History</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110413472</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110459548</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780812237467</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208351</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208351</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812208351/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-041345-8 Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-041347-2 Penn Press eBook Package World History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-045954-8 University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESTMALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_STMALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA12STME</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA18STMEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |