Genre
First Performance 01/12/2008
Closing 20/12/2008
Running Time 1h15

I Found My Horn is the tale of arts journalist Jasper Rees: a man who wakes up at 40 to a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit and the realisation that he has done nothing to make himself memorable. Then he clambers into the attic… After a lay-off of 25 years, he seeks redemption via the 16 feet of treacherous brass tubing he never mastered in his youth.  Resuming his old French horn, he sets himself an impossible task: to perform a Mozart concerto in front of a paying audience of horn fanatics.

In I Found My Horn, Jonathan Guy Lewis plays Jasper Rees – and everyone he encounters – on this voyage of musical discovery, from his old school conductor to the greatest German soloist since the war.  And, of course, Mozart. Lewis’s television career has seen him play leading roles in London’s Burning, Soldier Soldier and, in Coronation Street, Ian Bentley. His debut play Our Boys won the Writer’s Guild Award for Best New Fringe Play. He is a lapsed horn player.

Rees has been a freelance journalist since 1989. He writes arts features for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and has also reported on football for the Independent on Sunday. I Found My Horn is his third book. He is also the author Wenger: The Making Of A Legend and Blizzard: Race To The Pole. I Found My Horn was published in January 2008 and subsequently serialised on BBC Radio 4. It received its stage debut at the Aldeburgh Festival in June.

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