How do you tell a story through sound? How might we capture the divine, the sex, and the cold in Music and Silence? This summer, while reading Music and Silence, I felt cold. The damp and dark musicians’ room below the dining hall in Copenhagen, the icy silver mines, the bitter and cutting rain during[…]

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Why Music and Silence? Welcome to Brighton Early Music Festival’s book club. This year the book is Music and Silence by Rose Tremain. The book is one of the finest examples of historical fiction and follows a lute player, Peter Claire, who, in 1629 begins to work in the court of Christian IV of Denmark.[…]

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