· Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music by James Rhodes – review. First comes the wound, then the music to heal it – Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Los Angeles Review of Books. It was a striking year for musical memoirs. The American market got 'Instrumental,' the explosive memoir by the pianist James Rhodes depicting his addiction and mental illness in the wake of sexual abuse as a young child. Washington Post, "10 Noteworthy Moments in Classical Music in ". A feature film adaptation of Rhodes's incredible story is now in development from Monumental Pictures and BBC Films, following a competitive bidding war involving major U.S. and U.K. companies. An impassioned tribute to the therapeutic powers of music, Instrumental also weaves in fascinating facts about how classical music actually works and.
Editions for Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music: (Hardcover published in ), (Hardcover published in ), X. Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music by James Rhodes Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music. by. James Rhodes. · Rating details · 6, ratings · reviews. James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed abuse, breakdown and addiction. Listening to Rachmaninov on a.
Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music by James Rhodes – review. First comes the wound, then the music to heal it – a concert pianist’s memoir explores the legacy of the. This is a shocking memoir about the horrific sexual abuse that James suffered as a child and how music saved him. It is raw, ragged and real. The author is frank about describing what happened, how his life fell apart, and how he was able to finally begin putting it back together. Music soothes a lifetime of mental illness and psychosexual trauma in Rhodes’s intense memoir. Rhodes, an English concert pianist famous for his classical-music-for-the-masses shows, tells of being raped from the ages of six–10 by a teacher, which eventually led him to heavy drug abuse, obsessive-compulsive tics, a wrecked marriage, a suicide attempt, and commitment to mental institutions.
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