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Douglas Burton has an ongoing professional relationship with bruceduffie.com.

The website's primary purpose is to present transcripts of interviews with classical musicians done between 1978-2006. These include composers, conductors, singers, instrumentalists, managers, backstage personnel, historians, critics, etc. Some interviews were done on the telephone, but most were in-person. All of the guests registered their pleasure with the interview at the time, and when contacted about the material having been posted, their response has been completely positive.

Portions of most of the interviews were aired on WNIB, Classical 97 in Chicago, and later on WNUR, as well as Contemporary Classical Internet Radio. Many were also published in various scholarly journals. On the website, the interviews have (mostly) been presented complete, in printed transcript form.

Bruce Duffie owns the rights to all of the interviews. Neither WNIB, nor any other station or publication has disagreed with that posture.

The website is absolutely free, and open to anyone with internet access. There are no restrictions, and no information is gathered. There are no cookies. There is no advertising. Images of recordings are placed to show the guests' pictures, or to indicate recordings by the artists, usually as part of the discussion. No solicitation is implied or required. These promotional items have been provided by the companies with no guarantee of use. No fees have been collected.

To see a list of links to the interviews posted to date, click HERE.

To see a full list of Bruce Duffie's interview guests, with the usage of each, click HERE.

There is also a presentation of about 80 webpages devoted to Duffie's grandfather, Lawrence, who was head of the Gasoline Testing Department of Columbia cars, made in Hartford, CT, from 1895-1913. That section begins HERE.

If you find any mistakes, such as typos, line spacing, or any other errors, please let us know so they can be fixed. We welcome the chance to improve these webpages.

FYI, no further interviews are being done, so please do not suggest other artists for us to contact. Our time is now spent working with the transcripts, and getting them added to the website.