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I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle With The Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle With The Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

by JasperRees (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $4.15
Synopsis

At the age of 39 and three quarters, Jasper Rees fished his French horn out of the attic and took it to the British Horn Society festival. Along with 69 other horn players, he stood onstage and played Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. There and then, despite severely limited ability, he set himself a near impossible target: to stand up in front of a paying audience in twelve months' time and play a Mozart concerto. Alone. I FOUND MY HORN is the story of a midlife crisis spent with 18 feet of wrapped brass tubing. It is also 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. Along the way, Jasper Rees seeks expert advice as he prepares to stand up in front of a packed London auditorium and perform a Mozart concerto on this notoriously treacherous instrument. Everyone says the same thing. Don't do it.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 312
 Publisher: Phoenix mass market p/bk
Published: 08 Jan 2009
ISBN 10: 0753826437
ISBN 13: 9780753826430
Book Overview: An eccentric tale is told through the enticingly readable words of journalist Jasper Rees It received fantastic reviews: 'Reads like the best kind of Nick Hornby novel - all midlife crisis, technical obsessiveness and boyish defianceThe build-up to his climactic, foolhardy performance is irresistible... It's impossible not to get a little horn-obsessed oneself' Sunday Times 'The strength and reach of Rees's enthusiasm carry the dayRees did stand up to be counted, and he got a fine book out of it, too' Daily Telegraph 'There are things in this delightful, warm, witty, erudite book that will appeal to almost everyoneIt's not just Rees's personal transformation that makes this book such a joy, though. It's also playfulness, the flourishes, his eye for detail and the persuasive weight of his enthusiasm' Mail on Sunday 'Surprisingly evocative and moving' Scotland on Sunday 'This inspiring, moving and quite hilarious book is the perfect cheer-up present for everyone you ever knew' Classical Music Magazine 'High Fidelity meets Touching The Void in the improbably heroic adventure of an amateur French horn player... Very very good, very very funny and horribly true' Bob Geldof

Media Reviews
Provocative and eloquent in places, self-deprecatingly funny in others INDEPENDENT A rather unusal and thoroughly entertaining person odyssey that demonstrates the power of sheer determination GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Author Bio
Jasper Rees has been a freelance journalist since 1989. He writes arts features for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and has also reported on football for the Independent on Sunday.