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Author Rees, Jasper.

Title A devil to play : one man's year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument / Jasper Rees.

Imprint New York : Harper, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  788.94 R259Br 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 324 p. ; 22 cm.
Note Originally published: I found my horn. Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308).
Summary Jacob Rees tells why he took up the French horn again at the age of 39-and-three-quarters and persevered to play in front of a packed London auditorium and perform a Mozart concerto on this notoriously treacherous instrument. He also relates the story of man's first musical instrument, and its journey from the walls of Jericho to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from the hunting fields of aristocratic France to the heart of Hollywood.
Contents In the beginning was the horn -- The ipso factor -- Who is this Bethover? -- Le son du boa -- Ass, ox, and fool -- Hold it like a man! -- Without fear of death -- Holly wouldn't -- The act you've known for all these years -- The pass door.
Subject Rees, Jasper.
Horn players -- England -- Biography.
Horn (Musical instrument)
ISBN 9780061626616
0061626619
Standard No. NZ1 12763933
AU@ 000043064274
IG# 9780061626616

 
    
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