Rough ideas : reflections on music and more / Stephen Hough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hough, Stephen, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hough, Stephen, 1961-.

Hough, Stephen.

Hough, Stephen, 1961---Travel.

Piano music--Great Britain.

Piano music.

Music--Great Britain.

Music.

Travel.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Autobiographies.

Essays.

Piano music.

Physical Description:

xv, 443 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Summary:

Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and recordings. He is also a writer, composer and painter. As an international performer he spends much of his life at airports, on planes, and in hotel rooms and this book expands notes he has made, in his words, 'during that dead time on the road'. He writes about music and the life of a musician, from exploring the broader aspects of what it is to walk out on to a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practise. He also writes vividly about people he's known, places he's travelled to, books he's read, paintings he's seen; and touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there, the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts and the challenge involved in being a gay Catholic. An illuminating and absorbing introduction into the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.

Contents:

Introduction

Forum

Stage

Studio

People and Pieces

...and more

...and religion

A final reflection.

Notes:

Includes discography (pages 415-423) and index.

"Originally published in 2019 by Faber & Faber Ltd, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780374252540

0374252548

OCLC:

1102074809