Play it again

an amateur against the impossibile

Sachbuch

• KM.QUW : Musik : Biographisches : Musikwissenschaft, -kritik und -theorie : Erlebnisberichte

Verfasser:
Rusbridger, Alan

Verfasser Angabe:
Alan Rusbridger

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Biographie
• Journalist
• Klassische Musik

Verlag:
Farrar Straus Giroux

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2010

Umfang:
403 S. : Ill.

ISBN:
978-0-374-23291-7

Inhalt:
As editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger abides by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitational pull of music—especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: to fluently learn Chopin's magnificent Ballade No. 1 in G minor, arguably one of the most difficult Romantic compositions in the repertory. With pyrotechnic passages that require feats of memory, dexterity, and power, the piece is one that causes alarm even in battle-hardened concert pianists. He gives himself a year.