Fourth-Quarter Fiddlin’

A Memoir of An Engineer’s Makin’ Music

At age sixty-two, Dr. Tony Hopper picked up a violin for the first time. What began as an attempt to learn the fiddle blossomed into a twelve-year journey performing second violin with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.

In Fourth-Quarter Fiddlin’, Hopper shares how music transformed his “fourth quarter” of life, blending personal stories, family heritage, and the discovery that his great-grandfather’s passion for “makin’ music” connected him to a legacy that reaches into the heights of the classical music world.

This memoir is both a late-bloomer’s triumph and a testament to music’s enduring ability to express emotions too deep for words.