Composer and author Tina Davidson’s memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music from a Classical Composer was be published by Boyle & Dalton, March 2023. Davidson, a highly regarded American composer, creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. Lauded for her authentic voice, The New York Times has praised her “vivid ear for harmony and colors.” Her memoir traces her extraordinary life in equally lyrical language, juxtaposing memories, journal entries, notes on compositions in progress, and insights into the life of an artist – and a mother – at work.
Praise for Let Your Heart Be Broken:
"The real music here is in the words, which cascade across these pages with a gentle, precise rhythm reflected in Davidson’s luminous musical scores. Let Your Heart Be Broken is not the story of a solitary artist obsessed with a craft but rather of the life that informs the art: a humanistic, worldly spirit, creating beauty amid an often-maddening, yet ever-hopeful, world." -Peter Burwasser, The Broad Street Review
"Let Your Heart Be Broken is a consummate read in its entirety, exploring with uncommon sensitivity and poetic insight the fundamentals of love, forgiveness, creativity, and what it takes to emerge from the inner darkness into a vast vista of light, rooted in the life-tested truth that 'we are, in the end, a measure of the love we leave behind.'" – Maria Popova, The Marginalian
"With this memoir, Tina Davidson accomplishes something much more difficult, because it goes deeper into the soul: conveying what goes on inside when an artist - one particular artist - is creating the work, the work that both reveals herself, and escapes to become the world's, taking on a different meaning for every listener." – Jon Sobel, Blogcritics
"an unequivocally poetic memoir on love, loss, and music" – Hugh Morris, VAN Magazine
