Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible

by Alan Rusbridger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374232911
• ISBN13: 9780374232917
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"