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Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians

Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians

"Music is life. Music is a reflection of who we are as humans. Music tells us things that words can’t, it ignites feelings in us that we didn’t know we had, and it can reach a depth that nothing else can.” —Susan Graham, renowned American mezzo-soprano

Music has existed as long as there have been people to listen. It takes on many forms and is many things, providing entertainment, emotion, storytelling, and most of all, magic for all who hear.

In revealing and genuine interviews, Larry Ruttman converses with world-renowned musicians of the 21st century and engages them in an approachable manner. Dive into the recesses of their minds to discover the influences and inspiration behind classical music and other popular genres such as pop, jazz, folk, Americana, and many other genres impacting today’s musical culture.

Perfect for dedicated fans, determined students, and the casually interested listener to music of all genres, Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians is sure to inspire, fascinate, and entertain.

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In revealing and genuine interviews, Larry Ruttman converses with world-renowned musicians of the 21st century and engages them in an approachable manner. Dive into the recesses of their minds to discover the influences and inspiration behind classical music and other popular genres such as pop, jazz, folk, Americana, and many other genres impacting today’s musical culture. Perfect for dedicated fans, determined students, and the casually interested listener to music of all genres, Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians is sure to inspire, fascinate, and entertain.

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61153-505-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61153-493-1

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Author: Larry Ruttman
Genres: Educational, Featured, Fiction, Nonfiction
Publisher: Torchflame Books
Publication Year: 2024
ASIN: B0DBJ7MPJS
ISBN: 9781611535051
List Price: 50.00
eBook Price: 12.99
"Through these in-depth and utterly engaging interviews, Larry Ruttman has succeeded in revealing an intricate web of the musical mentors who have influenced the people portrayed in this delightful book. It’s like an official reference book for the musical world over the past hundred years. No lover of classical music will want to be without it."
– Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
“Larry Ruttman’s Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians opens a fascinating window into the lives and creative processes of some of the leading music-makers of our time. Erudite, inquisitive, and gifted with the ability to put his illustrious subjects at ease, Larry elicits heartfelt and strikingly candid interviews. Any reader of these in-depth encounters with great musicians is certain to gain a new understanding and appreciation of their artistry.”
– Renée Fleming
"Libraries seeking close inspections of classical music’s contemporary meaning will want to make Intimate Conversations a foundation acquisition for any serious music library."
– Midwest Book Review
"Absolutely fascinating, as well as impossible to find anywhere else."
– Neil Rutman, DMA, author of Stories, Images, and Magic from the Piano Literature
"compelling ... for classical music aficionados"
– Kirkus Reviews
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Larry Ruttman

Larry Ruttman, a longtime attorney and author, has won awards for biographical cultural histories about his famous hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts, Voices of Brookline (2005), and Jews on and off the field in Major League Baseball, American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball (2013), which was chosen the best baseball book in America for 2013 by Sports Collectors Digest. It also serves as a cultural history of American Jews since the Great Depression. He has recently written on his lifelong passion for classical music and its musicians in a book entitled Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians. Educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Boston College Law School, Larry served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force in the Korean War. He was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. His papers on his first two books have been collected by the The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (HC), formerly of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), and now in collaboration with and at the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston, Massachusetts, and collated, digitized, formatted, indexed, and published worldwide online. Larry has lived in Brookline since the age of two and has been married to Lois Raverby Ruttman for fifty-eight years. He is going strong at ninety-one. He recently began a weekly podcast focused on what life has taught him about friendship, inquisitiveness, and maturation. Larry is amazed that Providence has granted him the privilege to "live his life backwards" in this late-coming and deeply satisfying labor of love.

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