Description: Diane Asseo Griliches observes the many distinctive and dynamic ways in which music teachers interact with their students. These 60 black and white photographs capture unique moments in the lively teaching sessions with great musician and teachers (YoYo Ma, Jimmy Heath, Roman Totenberg, Bobbie McFerrin, and Ravi Shankar, to name but a few in a world where one sees the passion, devotion, the joy and agony of hard work, the concentration and body language of students and teachers, expressing the intense pleasures of shared music making.
Brief description: Diane Assaeo Griliches has been involved in music, theatre and fine art photography for many years. Her other books are Teaching Musicians, A Photographer's View, and An Appalachian Farmer's Story: Portrait of an Extraordinary Common Man(Mercer University Press).
Review Quotes: "Herein is the essence and power of the process of musical teaching . . . luminous, expressive, and utterly revealing."