Word: pattison
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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...
...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 to the U. S. last year especially to participate in the Boston...
...twelve years Guy Maier & Lee Pattison have held the title of world's best two-piano team (a few jazzists would wish to except Phil Ohman & Victor Arden) but they have kept their lives separate. They do most of their practicing apart, often stay at different hotels. If they should happen to eat together while traveling, Pianist Pattison would probably order oysters, Pianist Maier soup...
...last few summers Pianist Pattison has spent in composition at Warm Springs, Ga., with his English wife and their two little girls. Composition and chamber music with the Gordon String Quartet figure in his plans for the future. Pianist Maier has for several years been head of the piano department at the University of Michigan in which his wife has also taught. Much of Pianist Maier's time hereafter will be taken by Concerts for Young People, partially inspired by his young sons Ted and Bob with whom he has written a songbook soon to be published. Pianist Maier thinks...