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...Moore composition was the first offering of a new producing organization, the American Lyric Theatre. A year ago nothing but a glint in the eye of Musician Lee Pattison, the Theatre is now allied with the League of Composers and backed by a list of rich sponsors as long as its own honorable intentions. These include creating, cultivating, providing, stimulating and encouraging U. S. musical drama and ballet...
After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...
...particularly dear to New Englanders, for although a native of Buffalo, he was a resident of Boston during the years he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. His later studies were made in Berlin under the well-known Arthur Schwab. For many years, the pianistic team of "Pattison and Maier" was a familiar part of the concert season of nearly every large American, European and Oriental city...
During the War, this pleasant musical association was interrupted, but with the signing of the armistice, Pattison and Maier resumed their plane association, and continued to give their joint recitals for the next 12 years. Meanwhile, Maier began indulging in his pet ambition to give concerts for children. Out of this ambition grew the novel "musical journeys", which consisted of interesting sessions with the composers and music of great countries. These musical lectures, designed particularly for juvenile entertainment, kept Maier busy both in the delivery of them, and in gleaning new material for them. With the advent of Government sponsored...
...many years associated with Lee Pattison in the concert team of "Pattison and Maier," Mr. Maier has enjoyed a long and successful career in the concert halls of this country, Europe and the Orient. He is now acting as Assistant to the National Director of the Federal Music Project...