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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/08/2009
ISBN: 9780061626623
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.79d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 01/08/2010 pg. 74