The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
Famous Team Plays
n. Y. Philharmonic
And y Concert
Dates This Year
gv SUSAN 3. ANTHONY II


. Arthur Wnltte:nore and Jack
! Lowe, Americas foremost duo
piano team play with the same
great hearted "simultaneity" whe-
| Their il is before hushed Carnegie
, Hall audiences C. lie New York
Philharmonic. the wounded boys in
Naval hospitals, or recordings for
luke boxes that send teenagers in
the towns and cities of our coun-
try.
The famous team first came TO
Key West back in l945 on tour of
Naval hospitals in which they play
ed for 1000, 900 wounded navy men
| and their friends.
I'VE slept in the surgical ward
that night. One man was being pre-
pared for surgery, said Buck"
Whittemore the taller, dark men,
| Der of the team.
Jack Lowe, crewcut and smiling,
said" The man next to me was in
traction
The young pianists, clad in Key
West costume, shorts, and casual,
! bright shirts, are spending month
here practing for their performan-
ce with the New York Phil
armonic. They will play the
Vaughan Williams Concerto for
Two Pianos which they introduced
to America. They are the first
two-piano team to perform in the
regular philharmonic series in Is
years. Following that they will
continue their packed concert sea-
son which includes ~ concerts
which take them to % states.
Since their history making debut
at New York's Town Hall in 1910,
the versatile artists have played
in every state of the union save
Nevada.
The only graduates OF the East
man School of Music in Rochester
N. Y. to make a New York debut
the two-piano team have played
before 1000, 900 persons since they
finished their four year stint in
the Navy in 1916. Favorites with
university crowds as web as with
the elder conoscente, they have
played 47o concerts throughout the
nation.
The richness of their playing
comes not only from their vir-
tuosity, but from a rare il not un.
known experimentation of musical
thought that begins when they sit
down at their two pianos to learn
the new concerto and eliminates
in the climax Of attunement on the
concert stage.
Yesterday when | went to inter
view. the team at the Southernmost
apartment our new photographer.
Jim Cobb. asked them to pose at
| TIE small pianos shipped by Bald
win from Cincinnati.
/ They took up their familiar pos
itions facing each other.
/ AT the same instant two pairs OF
hands started flying over the keys
filling the apartment with THE
Song Is You" from their famous
album Two Grand" which they
are rerecording for % rpm discs in
February.
! Jim took one picture and then
stood entranced. He said:
/ Let's draw this picture out as
long as possible.
| Musicians that they are Whit
temore and Lowe had not plan
ned to play for us but once at
the piano, the peculiar empathy
which exists between the team
sent them into action on the keys.
We believe musicians should be
/ versatile We like to include six
or seven minutes o. popular music
/ in all our concerts. said Whit.
temore. " because We feel that pop
usar music is such an integral
part of life in America today.
Rather than perform ii as an en-
core only We put il in the body Of
our programs"
/ The team tries 10 minimize all
technical problems while playing.
| They do not signal each other. In
concert their two grand pianos Sc