BBC Radio 3 presenter Clemency Burton-Hill says music helped her 'to live' after brain haemorrhage
BBC presenter Clemency Burton-Hill has spoken about how music has helped her recover from a major brain haemorrhage.
The presenter, who is behind Radio 3's award-winning Classical Fix programme, as well as a regular face on the BBC's Proms coverage, is currently living in New York where she is creative director at WQXR, the New York public radio classical music station. Before she showed any sign of consciousness, British opera singer Andrew Staples - a close friend who was performing in New York when the presenter collapsed - recalls her left foot tapping along to some Brahms.Image captionA week or so later, just as doctors were removing the tubes that had initially aided her breathing, one of Burton-Hill's favourite pieces of music, Richard Strauss's Morgen, happened to play through the speaker.
"It was literally: I can do this, I'm going to get through this," she says now."Music is the opposite of despair. It was going to be worth the fight."As her recovery stepped up, friend and renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti came to visit and together they play Bach, with Burton-Hill - herself a violin soloist - playing the left hand on the violin and Benedetti bowing. Astonishingly, the broadcaster still recalled all the notes.
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