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Enough - Scenes from Childhood (Hardcover, Main)
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Enough - Scenes from Childhood (Hardcover, Main)
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List price R543
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'Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ .]
riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want
to know - this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a
second volume, a third, a fourth. I loved it.' Philip Pullman
Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists,
winning global acclaim and numerous awards. This memoir recounts
his unconventional coming-of-age story, from his beginnings in an
unmusical home in Cheshireto the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New
York aged 21. We read of his early love-affair with the piano which
curdled, after a teenage nervous breakdown, into failure at school
and six-hours a day watching television, engulfed in dreams,
seesawing between sexual and religious obsessions.We meet his
supportive, if eccentric parents - his artistically frustrated
father, his housework-hating mother. We read of the teachers who
encouraged and inspired, and others who hit him on the head
screaming, "you'll do nothing with your life". Then finding his way
back to the piano, having abandoned plans for an alternative life
as a Catholic priest, he flourished at the Royal Northern College
of Music and the Juilliard School, beginning his career as an
international soloist as this book ends.
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