How to Learn an Instrument as an Adult

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
The French horn and a mid-life crisis collide in a new book. Today: author Jasper Rees talks about his year-long quest to master the orchestra's most difficult instrument. Also: mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe takes us inside the role of Orfeo in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Gluck's operatic masterpiece "Orfeo ed Euridice." Plus: pre-recorded music in a performance at the Obama inauguration

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