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Holly Tripp and her contributing artists have come together to create another masterful collection. A tall order, but this volume at least equals the uncanny quality of the first. With much more to this book than meets the eye or ear, Stories of Music Volume 2 must be experienced, not merely read. There are far too many inspiring and astonishing stories, poems, photographs, video and musical offerings, most of which verge on life-changing art, to name them all, but they range from the wonders of the oft-neglected mouth harp (whodda thunk it?) to tribal dances and music as the Language of God. It's astounding the breadth of this book! Like Stories of Music Volume 1, with each offering a joy, Volume 2 gathers motley wonders in such a way as to create a whole far greater than the sum of its parts. "Must be experienced" is the phrase juste because the reader/listener/viewer comes away from a phenomenon: Tripp's vision of the power and importance of music, words, and, indeed, all arts—to heal and nurture—and, perhaps most of all, to nudge us toward transcendence. The stories, music, and visuals are combined and edited with extraordinary insight by a gifted artist in her own right. With every turn of the page, I felt like one who'd entered the realm of the unworldly, in both a real and mystical way, as though yet another secret door had been revealed. That was the true feeling. I've not heard songwriter Holly Tripp's songs, but this book makes one wonder what she must be capable of in that direction. I was not surprised to learn that Stories of Music Volume 2 won an International Book Award from American Book Fest (Anthologies: Non-Fiction category) among the most prestigious awards out there. Let us look forward to many more volumes in a series that, I don't doubt, will prove to be among the lasting offerings of our age. Congratulations to Holly and to all the musicians, writers, poets, and artists who participated in this, yet another, feat!


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Stories of Music Volume 2 Holly E Tripp Jeff Campbell 9780996932745 Books Reviews

If one is known by the company he keeps, I have been honored to hang out with some first-rate company once more in the second volume of Holly Tripp’s Stories of Music anthology. Unexpectedly but unavoidably delayed until after the new year, she sacrificed timing for quality and has once more produced a book that merits both attentive and leisurely exploration. Like last time, contributors are from all points of the compass.
Of course many are from the United States, but some of the other countries represented here include Bangladesh, China, England, France, Germany, India, the Philippines, and Russia. This time out, Tripp divides the book into thematic categories, including Origins, Exploration, and Transcendence. In this way, she is able to group contributors’ work thematically.
After snagging several national and state awards for volume 1, one had to wonder how Tripp could match that opening act. One notion that struck me while delving into the work is that this time the volume offers work within three media—reading, hearing, and watching. In “Heaven,” Bar Scott relates in an essay how she was inspired to write her poem of that name, a work that began as a musical exercise of improvisation and then evolved into lyrics that incorporate traditional images and phrases in new and original ways.
Still, she doesn’t stop there. By going online, we get to hear her perform the piece to her musical accompaniment while watching the talents of dancer and choreographer Lydia Rakov on a video segment that is beautifully produced and assembled by Jeremy Bronson.
Of course, while we all may love music in our own way, not all of us have musical expertise in its practice. Two standouts noting the insecurities of navigating the musical sphere are seen in Lucy Gabriel’s poem recalling her confusion while encountering sheet music and seeing little else but “Crushed Beetles and Spider’s Crawl;” meanwhile Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios’s “Piano at Five” revisits the personal terror of “peering into the dark interior” of a teacher’s enclave with her sheet music “clutched to my gingham flat-chested dress.” She concludes that it all “ends without endings” as she realizes the sounds she produces are “never quite keeping harmony.”
The photographs, again, are interesting to observe as well as beautiful to delve into, showing many parts of the globe while presenting the unifying power of music.
The section marked “Against All Odds” honors just that and contains two standout pieces. The first is an essay by Richard Bauman honoring Paul Wittgenstein, a promising pianist who lost his right arm to a World War I battlefield injury but went on to inspire a slew of new pieces accommodating that loss, culminating in Maurice Ravel’s now famous Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Another, more contemporary reckoning of that theme comes from Philip See’s autobiographical “Lost and Found.” A musician diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2002, he drew inspiration from his own father, a victim of cerebral palsy who overcame the contractures to play piano. Now See works with others, using neuroplasticity to elicit the curative powers of musical performance. He sums up his views in one of the greatest quotes on the power of music ever given, surmising how “music transcends physical limits—whether one plays instruments or listens to them, the brain responds.”
Perhaps if there is a volume 3 in the future, Holly will consider that statement as its cornerstone.
Beautiful book! You feel the love of music from each and every contributor. Cannot wait to hear all of them again!
Holly Tripp and her contributing artists have come together to create another masterful collection. A tall order, but this volume at least equals the uncanny quality of the first. With much more to this book than meets the eye or ear, Stories of Music Volume 2 must be experienced, not merely read. There are far too many inspiring and astonishing stories, poems, photographs, video and musical offerings, most of which verge on life-changing art, to name them all, but they range from the wonders of the oft-neglected mouth harp (whodda thunk it?) to tribal dances and music as the Language of God. It's astounding the breadth of this book! Like Stories of Music Volume 1, with each offering a joy, Volume 2 gathers motley wonders in such a way as to create a whole far greater than the sum of its parts. "Must be experienced" is the phrase juste because the reader/listener/viewer comes away from a phenomenon Tripp's vision of the power and importance of music, words, and, indeed, all arts—to heal and nurture—and, perhaps most of all, to nudge us toward transcendence. The stories, music, and visuals are combined and edited with extraordinary insight by a gifted artist in her own right. With every turn of the page, I felt like one who'd entered the realm of the unworldly, in both a real and mystical way, as though yet another secret door had been revealed. That was the true feeling. I've not heard songwriter Holly Tripp's songs, but this book makes one wonder what she must be capable of in that direction. I was not surprised to learn that Stories of Music Volume 2 won an International Book Award from American Book Fest (Anthologies Non-Fiction category) among the most prestigious awards out there. Let us look forward to many more volumes in a series that, I don't doubt, will prove to be among the lasting offerings of our age. Congratulations to Holly and to all the musicians, writers, poets, and artists who participated in this, yet another, feat!