A Devil to Play

A Devil to Play

One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

by Jasper Rees

336 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780061979712
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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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