1. 28 April 2010 · 07:34 PM · 11 notes
    myyearofeverything: Moving on! Right now, I’m about 20 pages into Jasper Rees’ “A Devil To Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest To Master The Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument.” In it, the author picks up the French Horn after 22 years of neglect and gives himself a year to play a solo at the annual British Horn Festival. A goal! A writer who uses humor! Horns! It’s just the thing I needed after “Sundays In America.” One never expects to hear oneself call out the name “Jasper” in ecstasy, but here we are.  The occasion would seem to call for classical-music accompaniment, but someone I follow on MOG just posted a ’90s emo playlist, so I’m getting all Promise Ring with it. Emo wasn’t always a dirty word, kids.  Reblogging as an excuse to post some baroque horn music: Et voila, Telemann: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G67I-aQCWL4

    myyearofeverything:

    Moving on!

    Right now, I’m about 20 pages into Jasper Rees’ “A Devil To Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest To Master The Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument.” In it, the author picks up the French Horn after 22 years of neglect and gives himself a year to play a solo at the annual British Horn Festival. A goal! A writer who uses humor! Horns! It’s just the thing I needed after “Sundays In America.” One never expects to hear oneself call out the name “Jasper” in ecstasy, but here we are. 

    The occasion would seem to call for classical-music accompaniment, but someone I follow on MOG just posted a ’90s emo playlist, so I’m getting all Promise Ring with it. Emo wasn’t always a dirty word, kids. 

    Reblogging as an excuse to post some baroque horn music: Et voila, Telemann:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G67I-aQCWL4