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

Rees, Jasper

 
9780061626623: A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
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ISBN 10: 0061626627 ISBN 13: 9780061626623
Editorial: Harper Perennial, 2009

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del 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.

De la contraportada

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.

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Editorial
Harper Perennial
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0061626627
ISBN 13 
9780061626623
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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9780061626616: A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

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ISBN 10:  0061626619 ISBN 13:  9780061626616
Editorial: HarperCollins, 2008
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