The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
Nations No. l Duo-Pianists
Whittemol 9 And Lowe Here
For Practice And Summing


winking. head bowling, or hand mo-
tons coordinate their performance.
I'VE inhaie breath just before
starting, Jack said. But l don't
think you'd ever notice it. From
then on we just play together.
The team practices and works
on arrangements five hours day
in the summer at their spacious
home in Quogue, Long Island.
Here they will be practicing a lot
but according to Buck,
II want to get as much of this
Key West sun as possible.
They prefer to practice from
1880 am. to 1890 noon. On tour,
however, they are lucky if they
get in an hour in the afternoon be-
fore their $50 concert.
Dinner on tour is at 4:30.
This gives us chance TO digest
before the concert. We started eat
ing at this hour when we were in
the Navy. They did il and we
found it good. We don't like to
have supper after concert be-s
cause then we can't sleep"
The more than ten years of par
tnership have not all been sweet
ness and light.
I'VE fight almost fisticuffs some
times over arrangements. You see
we have to agree finally on what
we are doing, else we couldn't
perform together. But we sweat
out every step of learning, mem
orizing, and arranging together,
"said Whittemore. Neither of us
can ever say that an arrangement
is mine it is always ours.
I'VE actually know at the same
moment when thing is bad"
said Jack Lowe
! The team collabarateS in the
true sense of Gie word. Though
they have honest differences and
I fights, they have continued the I'M
broken partnership for a dozen
years, that began at the Eastman
i school of music.
They trained in the same pow
erty during those days. Whittemore
lived on $50 month and Lowe
a more munificent $40.
| .eThen we took a $40 a month
apartment found it too expensive,
and HAD to take In a foomef. TO.
day he is the mana ger of our
/ music stores in Long Island " Jack
said.
One of their recipes for sue
cess is Never take the advice of
friends, however weil.meaning. or
even experts.
II Whittemore and Lowe had
listened to some so-called men
tors they would never have become
the Number One piano team of the
United States. They were called
fools for turning down teaching
jobs and other steady occupations
to try themselves in the great city
as twin musicians.
With artistic but practical in.
tuition, Whittemore and Lowe fou-
ght their way through not only
to their debut. but to their own
career plans. They are grateful
to their teacher Abby Whiteside
with whom they have studied for
years. They appreciate the breaks
which have placed their Talents be-
fore millions of persons. but they
also appreciate the fact that they,
! and they alone, know the road
they must travel.
i And differing road it is. Fol
lowing this seasons performances
the team Wi: f.y TO EUROPE where
London and Paris audiences will
hear them in person for the first
time.
Meanwhile. if you see two hand
some men, on the beach or on
Duval street one tau and dark,
one shorter with a sandy crew cut
they are Whittemore and Lowe
/ And when the teenagerS cheer
Third Street Rhumba or the adults
cheer Bolero played with a quality
that soes -i-ht to the heart. that
is Whittemore and Lowe.
A prophet is without honor in
his own county. they say. But
last year the famous team had
the pleasure Of experiencing the
reverse Of this saying. The Univ
ersity of. Rochester. their Alma