Description
Author: Howard Smith
For forty years, HOWARD SMITH worked hard as a technologist and consultant, a career he loved. Approaching retirement, and facing an intractable problem at the office, he discovers the one thing that had been missing all along: a piano. Regretful of not having had the discipline to persevere with lessons as a child, the author embarks upon an urgent quest: to lead a new creative life and to achieve this in just three years. Encountering many obstacles and rescued by a blue snowman, he finally comes to understand what it means to be a musician.
Blending theory and practice, this unique memoir describes how the author navigated his transition from the digital to the analogue: from the bits and bytes of the computer industry to the world of melody, harmony and musical performance. Join our hero as he jumps onto a distinctly bumpy escalator in what becomes a relentless pursuit of his dream.