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The Places That Saw Us Grow

Notable Stories of the Musical Schutmaat Family

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From a bizarre violin-piano recital for Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, to being posted to Colombia as missionaries at a time in which violence in that South American nation is rampant, to bullfights, a steamship journey up the great Magdalena River through a steaming tropical jungle to their new home in a Caribbean paradise, building tree houses and sailing the seas on homemade boats, the Schutmaat family steadily grows in number as does the family ensemble which is soon recognized, in the words of music critic Moonie Attie, as "one of the most remarkable concentrations of talent under a single name I have ever heard." The Schutmaat brothers recount tales that describe what it was like to be raised by musician-educator-missionary parents in the many places that saw them grow as people who have often viewed the world from different perspectives, and with varying interpretations of what many consider to be the "purpose of life." The pains and pleasures of growth are explored and shared in these anecdotes compiled by the Schutmaat brothers who after having lived together as a close- knit family of nine for many years, scattered to the four winds, and yet remain together, bound by a common past. leer todo...

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año edición
2021
n° edición
1
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Biografías
n° páginas
256
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14 x 21 cm (con solapa)
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Papel Blanco 75 Grs
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William Schutmaat Loew

William Schutmaat estudió Literatura en la Universidad de Michigan y se licenció en Literatura Comparada por el Eckerd College. Es periodista y editor para publicaciones internacionales, traductor literario y activo en el campo de la educación a varios niveles, incluido el de Rector de universidad.
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