Horn Found In White Bear

I Found My Horn, by Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis, tells of a man who wakes up in midlife to a broken marriage and the dawning fear that he has done nothing to make himself memorable.

Packing away his life as he prepares for divorce, he is struck by an insane idea: why not pick up the French horn that defeated him in his youth?

So it is that, after a lay-off of several decades, Jasper Rees seeks adventure and redemption via sixteen feet of treacherous brass tubing. Dusting off the instrument he last played as a gormless teen, he sets himself an impossible task: to perform a Mozart concerto in front of a paying audience of horn fanatics at the British Horn Society.

“Don’t do it,” says his mentor. “It takes balls of Sheffield steel to play the French horn in public!”

Damned if he does, Jasper also knows he’s damned if he doesn’t…

Adapted from the best-selling book by Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis and directed by Harry Burton, I FOUND MY HORN was first seen in 2008 at the Aldeburgh Festival, and subsequently in the West End, New York and Los Angeles. This joyous and feel-good show starring Jonathan Guy Lewis places the transforming power of music centre-stage.