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.

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


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 01/08/2010 pg. 74

About the Author
Rees, Jasper: -

A journalist with two decades of experience, Jasper Rees has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, the Evening Standard, and The Times. He lives in London.