Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible
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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 learnChopin'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.Under ideal circumstances, this would have been a daunting
task. But the particular year Rusbridger chooses turns out to be
one of frenetic intensity. As he writes in his introduction,
Perhaps if I'd known then what else would soon be happening in my
day job, I might have had second thoughts. For it would transpire
that, at the same time, I would be steering the Guardian through
one of the most dramatic years in its history. It was a year that
began with WikiLeaks' massive dump of state secrets and ended with
the Guardian's revelations about widespread phone hacking at News
of the World. In between, there were the Japanese tsunami, the Arab
Spring, the English riots . . . and the death of Osama Bin Laden,
writes Rusbridger. The test would be to nibble out twenty minutes
per day to do something totally unrelated to the above.Rusbridger's
description of mastering the Ballade is hugely engaging, yet his
subject is clearly larger than any one piece of classical music.
Play It Again deals with focus, discipline, and desire but is,
above all, about the sanctity of one's inner life in a world
dominated by deadlines and distractions. What will you do with your
twenty minutes?
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