ドリーム・シアターのインスタグラム(dreamtheaterofficial) - 10月23日 09時10分

Here’s an excerpt of acclaimed composer David Campbell’s foreword taken from #TheAstonishingNovel by @peterorullian “The music of The Astonishing developed from John Petrucci’s fully conceived story idea, in similar fashion to those 19th century works. The story of The Astonishing, set in a totalitarian society that made humanly created music a relic of the past, is right in line with those earlier tales of epic consequences and philosophic struggles. While one might think that a society without humans making music is unlikely, we’ve had examples in fairly recent history of music being forcibly removed from daily life. For instance, earlier this century, the Taliban in Afghanistan banned the use of music except for ceremonial drum dirges. And in the 20th century, China endured the “Cultural Revolution”, which viewed the act of listening to Western music or owning instruments such as the classical violin as a criminal activity. Ironically, now that the “Cultural Revolution” is long gone, where do you find the greatest number of classical music students? - in China. (Reportedly, at least one million Chinese children are learning classical violin, and playing Mozart, Beethoven and other Western composers). Clearly, the concepts of banning music in society, and then the redemption and re-embracing of music after governmental policy is changed, are not as fictional as one might assume.” You can pre-order the limited edition of ‘The Astonishing’ novel here - http://smarturl.it/TheAstonishingNovel

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