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Author Hough, Stephen, 1961- author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  786.209 HOU    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  780.92 HOUGH H    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description xv, 443 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes discography (pages 415-423) and index.
Note "Originally published in 2019 by Faber & Faber Ltd, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Contents Introduction -- Forum -- Stage -- Studio -- People and Pieces -- ...and more -- ...and religion -- A final reflection.
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.
Subject Hough, Stephen, 1961-
Hough, Stephen, 1961- -- Travel.
Piano music -- Great Britain.
Music -- Great Britain.
Hough, Stephen, 1961- (OCoLC)fst01947499
Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
Piano music. (OCoLC)fst01063403
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Essays.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780374252540 (hardcover)
0374252548 (hardcover)
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