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by RonPrice
27 Feb 2015, 16:05
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block
Replies: 7
Views: 409283

Re: A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block

The great statesman's mental health, and in particular Winston Churchill's manic depression, is still generating controversy today. In 2006, a British mental health charity defended a statue it commissioned of Churchill in a straitjacket, after the statue sparked a public outcry. Some people were ou...
by RonPrice
28 Jan 2015, 22:04
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block
Replies: 7
Views: 409283

Re: A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block

It's just some "writers' block palaver", Billy, and here is some more......I had a little sleep after lunch, and will now finish this post, as we used to call a letter, before going for my daily constitutional around the block . It's now 2015.............Churchill's political and literary achievemen...
by RonPrice
09 Jan 2015, 11:37
Forum: Writer's Block Palaver
Topic: A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block
Replies: 7
Views: 409283

A Famous Composer: His Cure for Writer's Block

Sergei Rachmaninoff was a master of translating melancholy and nostalgia into a musical language. He was cured of a profound writer’s block through hypnosis, and he dedicated his beloved Second Piano Concerto to his psychiatrist, Dr Nikolai Dahl. I dedicate my love for music to my mother and father ...