The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman – review

A veteran music writer tells how he reconnected with the soundtrack of his life after suffering sudden hearing lossWhat is the opposite of music? Before reading Nick Coleman's affecting memoir, my temptation might have been to suggest unthinkingly that music is the converse of silence. The book leaves you in no doubt, however, that the flipside of music is in fact discordancy, unregulated clamour.Nick Coleman had been a writer about music for 25 years or more when one morning he woke with sudden...

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