Living the True Story.

Ruth Ann Scanzillo
3 min readMay 12, 2023

A guitar player I know just posted a summary of his life, on social media.

Guitar players being legion on this planet, many of us tend to pigeonhole these ubiquitous musicians. We not so subconsciously sort them into great; solid; not so hot. And, then we go about our lives.

This man, however, was a breed apart. He’d done what our generation would have called “everything”. His fingers traveling so far beyond the frets had been in so many pies, professions, callings. And, because we all KNEW him, we also accepted his life accomplishments as valid. True. No…

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Ruth Ann Scanzillo

Ruth Ann Scanzillo is a 25 year Baby Boomer veteran of public arts education w/34 years as symphonic cellist and chamber pianist; now, writing seems important.