The Stories Songs Tell

A song can give someone the courage to step onto a dance floor, unsettle a party, or make a journey harder to forget. Sometimes, all it takes is listening to what someone else has chosen.

In The Stories Songs Tell, Paulo Ehms brings together twenty stories in which songs and concert works take part in decisions. There is curiosity, humor, desire, tension, and the pleasure of doing something for the first time.

From discovering an arrangement to preparing a Christmas Eve celebration, characters of different ages explore ways of listening, creating, and living together. Each story has its own event and can be read independently.

No knowledge of the musical references is needed. Brief background notes introduce the works without revealing the plots; original engravings accompany the scenes. The endnotes bring together the sources, and no song lyrics are reproduced or translated.

Twenty Stories to Listen to Life.