Green Horn
Jasper Rees was having a midlife crisis. Instead of buying a motorcycle, he confronted the French horn — the notoriously difficult brass that terrorized him in childhood. Kurt talks with Rees about his memoir, A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument.
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