Word: maier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to dissociate as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, liver & bacon or the Cherry Sisters are Pianists Guy Maier and Lee Pattison. For twelve years Pianists Maier & Pattison have given two-piano recitals the length and breadth of the U. S.. in Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Their success has inspired other two-piano teams. Two-piano literature has increased because of them: Composers Leo Sowerby, John Alden Carpenter, Edward Burlingame Hill and Leopold Godowsky have written music for them. But the two-piano repertory is limited at best and because they feel that they have pretty well exhausted it, because they...
...Maier & Pattison audiences often express wonderment that two musicians with such contrasting methods can get effects so marvelously unified that it is often hard to tell which one is carrying the melody. Both excellent musicians, Pianist Maier is the better showman. He is more given to swaying over the keyboard, to making his crescendoes look mighty as well as sounding so. He is not above making occasional impromptu speeches or working for a laugh as he did last week with the titivating run in Arensky's Scherzo. Pianist Pattison's contribution is just as important but he makes it more...
...personality, background and ambition the teammates are as different as they appear on the platform. Pianist Maier, volatile, talkative, fairly bursting with energy, comes from Buffalo, the son of a retail shoe dealer. As a boy he had a burning desire to be a Presbyterian minister. He went to the New England Conservatory of Music instead, there met Lee Pattison of Eagle Grove, Iowa, who had always quietly intended being a musician. In Boston the friends gave their first two-piano recitals, then in 1914 went to Berlin to study with Arthur Schnabel, famed Brahms expert who came...
...Maier, Jamaica, N. Y.; G. W. Mansfield, Cambridge; J. A. Marcus, Brooklyn, N. Y.; A. J. Marder, Dorchester, D. F. Margolies, New York City; J. S. Mason, Pittsburgh, Pa.; E. J. Masseilo, Somerville; F. X.; Moloney, Roxbury, Z. I. Mosesson, Uniontown, Pa.; Vernon Munroe, Jr., New York City; C. T. Murphy, Phila., Pa.; J. J. Murphy, Jr., Cambridge...
Arthur Howland Baker, Jr. '34, Thayer Academy; Lorenzo Martinez de Picabia, Jr. '34, St. Mark's; Joseph Francis Ferriter '34, Choate; Roger Sherman Greene '34, Country Day; Herbert Marshall Howe '34, St. Georges; Chester Harding King '34, Kent; John Maier '34, Hill; John Taylor Gilman Nichols '34, Belmont Hill; Herbert Russell Pierce, Jr. '34, Noble and Greenough; Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Milton; Edward Eaby Stowell '34, St. Paul's School; Richard John Walsh, Jr. '34, Phillips Andover; William Wemple '34, Loomis...