A Devil to Play - One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult

Informationen zum Autor A journalist with two decades of experience, Jasper Rees has written for The Daily Telegraph , The Independent , the Evening Standard , and The Times . He lives in London. Klappentext In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees traded his pen for a French horn that had been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years and, on a lark, played it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society. Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspired Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and play a Mozart concerto—solo—to a large paying audience. A Devil to Play is the true story of an unlikely midlife crisis spent conquering eighteen feet of wrapped brass tubing widely regarded as the most difficult instrument in the world to master—an endearing, inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement, relayed masterfully, one side-splittingly off-key note at a time. Zusammenfassung A charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession! A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees! a man who unearths his childhood French horn! and begins a quixotic but obsessively serious challenge: to play a Mozart concerto—alone—for a paying audience within one year’s time. It’s an endearing! inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement! relayed masterfully! one side-splittingly off-key note at a time.

Product details

• Authors: Jasper Rees
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.12.2009
• EAN: 9780061626623
• ISBN: 978-0-06-162662-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Music, Biography: general, Brass Instruments, Memoirs, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Reference works, General and world history, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, MUSIC: General, HISTORY: Women, ART: History / General, MUSIC: Printed General, MUSIC: Essays, MUSIC: Reference, MUSIC: Printed Music / Brass