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As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer's greatest keyboard masterpieces, the Goldberg Variations. In Counterpoint, he recounts his efforts to rise to the challenge, and to fight through his grief by coming to terms with his memories of a difficult, complicated childhood.

Conversations with our ever-growing network, on art, migration, and social justice. Counterpoints Arts is a national organisation in the UK in the field of arts, migration and social change. It supports arts by and about refugees and migrants, producing programs like Refugee Week, PopChange and Platforma Festival in the UK and internationally. Counterpoints' work spans climate, racial justice, mental health, and displacement.