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

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.

• | Author: Jasper Rees
• | Publisher: Harper Perennial
• | Publication Date: Dec 08, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0061626627
• | ISBN-13: 9780061626623