A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780061626623)

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
ISBN-10: 0061626627
ISBN-13: 9780061626623
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.79d

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