By OSA AMADI – Arts Editor
We arranged our first lesson for the morning of the following day, 8 January 1988. When I got there, instead of giving me the music lesson, Mr. Cyprian gave me a little book I will never forget its title and author: The Rudiments of Music by S. Geoffrey Boateng. He said I should go and study the book and come back. I told him I had read music books before on my own but did not understand them. He said I should go and read that one first; that I should come back to him if there was anything I did not understand.
I never went back to him for anything. Like magic, I understood everything! My head almost exploded as I was reading the book. I was blown away to another planet as Geoffrey Boateng’s Rudiments of Music initiated me into the cult of reading and writing music on staff of five lines and four spaces. “Just before 5:00 a.m. this morning,”…
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