Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer Davidson Tina
Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer Davidson Tina Tina Davidson is three-and-a-half when she is adopted from her foster home in Sweden by a visiting American professor.…
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Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer Davidson Tina
Tina Davidson is three-and-a-half when she is adopted from her foster home in Sweden by a visiting American professor. She studies music and becomes a prolific pianist and composer. Soon she is the oldest of five children, living with her mother and stepfather in Turkey, Germany, and Israel.
When she returns to Sweden, she contacts the Swedish adoption agency. But something about her birth remains unnamed and hidden. "Come," says the voice on the phone, "I have information for you."In Let Your Heart Be Broken, Tina Davidson juxtaposes memories, journal entries, and insight into the life of an artist-and a mother-at work.
Along the way, Davidson meets Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg, survives an attack by nomads in Turkey, and learns her birth father is a world-famous scientist. And throughout, there is the thread of music, an ebb and a crescendo of a