{"product_id":"play-it-again-alan-rusbridger","title":"Play it Again (Alan Rusbridger)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis timing could have been better. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe next twelve months were to witness the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami, the English riots, and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's breaking of both WikiLeaks and the News of the World hacking scandal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the midst of this he carved out twenty minutes' practice a day - even if that meant practising in a Libyan hotel in the middle of a revolution as well as gaining insights and advice from an array of legendary pianists, theorists, historians and neuroscientists, and even occasionally from secretaries of state. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut was he able to play the piece in time?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Rusbridger is Editor in Chief of the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and a keen amateur musician.  After reading English at Cambridge he started on a local newspaper and tried his hand at a range of journalistic jobs - including reporter, columnist, critic, foreign correspondent, magazine editor, features editor and, from 1995, editor. During his time editing the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e the paper has won numerous awards and has grown to be one of the three largest online newspapers in the world.  He led the paper's coverage of the secret WikiLeaks cables and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's campaign to get at the truth about phone hacking, which led to numerous resignations, the closure of the \u003ci\u003eNews of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a boy, he was a cathedral chorister, a reasonable orchestral clarinetist and a very mediocre pianist. He failed to be a world-class conductor, abandoned the organ and put his clarinets in the attic. In his mid 40s he restarted piano lessons and tried to make up for more than 30 years of missing technique. Since then, he has moved from 'very mediocre' to 'mediocre'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFind out more about Alan and the Ballade at \u003cb\u003ewww.alanrusbridger.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-Format, Englisch, 416 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65810930499933,"sku":"K045696867","price":14.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/4569686700001A.jpg?v=1788517303","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/play-it-again-alan-rusbridger","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}