Note for Note: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- ISBN-10
- 1999846710
- ISBN-13
- 9781999846718
- Category
- Pianists
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Howard Smith
Description
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.
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