'The trust you (and I) have in Bach can be brought to any painting or poem or piece of music: trust it, and it may give up its secrets.' Good Music: Letters on Art and Life is a generous meeting of minds. Writing to one another over a period of months, Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee and composer and radio broadcaster Andrew Ford share their ways of seeing, hearing and interpreting the world around them. Rich exchanges take them from Bach to Bob Dylan and beyond, touching upon ideas of beauty, taste and culture. The two men discover new recordings, revisit old favourites, and think together - and from their different disciplines - about music, narrative and memory. Their warm rapport is its own invitation to listen, testament to the magic of minds opened and insights shared.
