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The Music Box

State Symphony Orchestra Will Present Guy and Lois Maier As Guest Artists Sunday

Another in its series of unusual symphonic concerts will be presented by the Federal Music Project at Jordan Hall, Sunday evening, when two eminent concert pianists, Guy and Lois Maier appear as guest artists with the familiar State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Thiede.

The program will feature the music of Mozart. The Maiers will play the Mozart Concerto in E Flat Major for two planes; Guy Maier's solo will be Mozart's Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 482, with cadenzas by Busoni. The orchestra contribution to the program is the Mozart Symphony in G. Minor.

The name of Guy Maier is synonymous with everything that is musically significant in this country. He is a tried and true artist with long years of concert bad experience behind him. He is 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 music, Maier was appointed an assistant to the National Director of the Federal Music Project, a post which he now holds

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