Five Alcoholics Looking for the Perfect Pitch

More and more musicians and show people are getting into A.A. In our New York group, we have a young orchestra. Rudy is the greatest French horn player in the country. Koussevitzky said that his solo in Tschaikovsky's Fifth has never been surpassed. But Rudy went on benders, dragging his French horn with him to bars, always hanging on to it. Friends dragged Rudy out of a hotel hallway one night whither he had escaped stark naked, to 'surpass himself' in a horn solo.