Dear Horn Listers, Please allow me this opportunity to inform you of the publication of a new book, I Found My Horn, by British journalist and amateur horn player, Jasper Rees. This is an autobiographical account of Jasper's return to horn playing after a 22 year hiatus. The title comes from the humorous Flanders and Swann song that uses the rondo of Mozart No. 4, K.495 as its melody. The book is being released in the UK on January 24 by Wiedenfeld and is scheduled for release in the US later this year by HarperCollins with the title A Devil to Play, taken from the same source. Apparently, HC found the original title a bit too racy! That aside, I can personally say that Jasper is an excellent writer and a "jolly good chap" as I was privileged to have him as a participant at KBHC as he made his "quest for the grail." There is an extract published in the Daily Telegraph, the paper that Mr. Rees mainly writes for, _http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/20/bmrees120.xml_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/20/bmrees120.xml) which gives a flavor of the book’s tone. Rest assured that there is also a lot of serious consideration of the horn’s history too. For example, he's attempted to gather in one place every known fact about Leutgeb. There is also a chapter which is called “Hold It Like A Man!” after something Hermann Baumann said to him rather too forcefully one hot afternoon at KBHC. The BBC has named I Found My Horn its "Book of the Week. Five edited extracts are being read as an audio book on BBC Radio 4 from Monday 14 Jan through Friday 18 Jan. The official broadcast time for the program is 9.45 AM, local time, and then there’s a repeat for European insomniacs at 12.30 AM, which is early-mid evening, depending on your time zone, in the US. It is possible to listen online by going to _http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/) and clicking on the Listen Live tab on the right. However, there is also a Listen Again option online which allows you to catch it for up to a week afterwards. It can be found here: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml) . Thus the Monday episode is available for seven days from the moment of broadcast, the Tuesday one for seven days, and so on. Copies of the first release may currently be ordered at Amazon.com _http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Found-my-Horn/dp/0297852256/sr=8-4/qid=1156923011/ref=sr_1_4/ 202-3095876-5926215?ie=UTF8&s=gateway_ (http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Found-my-Horn/dp/0297852256/sr=8-4/qid=1156923011/ref=sr_1_4/202-3095876-5926215?ie=UTF8&s =gateway) . A copy is on its way to me and I'll give a review here, ASAP. Please join me in congratulating Jasper in his monumental accomplishment in adding to the sparse assortment of horn related writings! Sincerely, Kendall Betts
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