I Found My Horn
One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
Description:... At the age of 39 and three quarters, Jasper Rees fished his French horn out of the attic, where it had lain silent for 22 years, and took it to the instrument's annual jamboree: 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. This book is the story of a midlife crisis spent on French horn. It is also the story of man's first musical instrument. 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.
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