bookshelves: published-2008, under-500-ratings, radio-4x, spring-2015 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 16 to 25, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zm2nyDescription: In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French ...
This represents the dream of most of our Walter Mitty selves. I was in my mid-thirties when my son took up the trombone in school and, wanting to help him out, started French Horn lessons at the college where I worked. 20 years later he had long given up the trombone and I, after 15 years, gave up ...
An enjoyable mix of horn history and anecdotes.
Approaching 40 and a bit of a midlife crisis (divorce, etc), Jasper decides to pick up the French horn again, which he hasn't played in 22 years since he was in school. He sets a high goal of doing a performance in front of the British Horn Society in one year's time. Given that he felt he never rea...
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