Drawing on five years of research and well over 100 interviews with students, colleagues, and family members of flutist Marcel Moyse, author McCutchan distills a truthful, vital portrait of this charismatic, complex, and sometimes puzzling man.
Ann McCutchan grew up on the Atlantic coast of Florida and has lived in New Orleans, Honolulu, Ithaca, Ann Arbor, and Laramie, in addition to 22 years in Texas. She trained and worked as a classical clarinetist while developing an award-winning writing career. She teaches creative nonfiction writing at the University of North Texas.
Her books include Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus), The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (OUP), and Circular Breathing: Meditations From a Musical Life (Sunstone).
Her fourth book, River Music: An Atchafalaya Story, was published by Texas A & M University Press in September. An original blend of cultural and environmental history, journalism, biography, oral history, and memoir, River Music traces decades of environmental and social changes in Cajun country by way of the life of Louisiana musician, naturalist, and sound documentarian Earl Robicheaux. It includes an epilogue addressing the BP oil disaster and its effects on Louisiana's coastal residents and ecosystem.
Ann is currently working on a book about Florida's space coast during the 1960s, when she and her family lived so close to Cape Kennedy their windows rattled with each blast-off. Like River Music, it is a personal blending and braiding of various elements.
For more information, visit Ann's personal website: www.annmccutchan.com
