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Attorney Peter Gutmann Honored For Music Criticism
June 26, 2007
Womble Carlyle attorney Peter Gutmann has an ear for music, as well as an eye for the law.
Gutmann has been honored by the Society for Professional Journalists with a Second Place Dateline Award for Excellence in Local Journalism in the Weekly Arts Criticism category. This is the fifth time in six years that the Society has honored Gutmann’s work in music criticism. He received his award at the Society’s annual awards ceremony, held June 12th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The award-winning piece was a May 29, 2006, article on composer Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony entitled "A Symphony Without Notes." The article originally appeared in Legal Times and an expanded version of the article is available online.
Gutmann is a regular music columnist in Legal Times and has been writing about classical music regularly since 1998. His collection of classical CDs and LPs numbers in the thousands.
In addition, Gutmann has established a Web site http://www.classicalnotes.net/, to chronicle his long-standing love of classical music. The Web site includes his published articles, as well as numerous other reviews and opinion pieces on the subject of classical music.
Gutmann is a respected, experienced attorney in the field of telecommunications law. He practices in Womble Carlyle’s Washington, D.C., office.
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