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Marvin Maazel: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 11:49am.
The pianist Marvin Maazel, uncle of conductor Lorin Maazel, circa 1921 in New York. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Submitted by Paullubbock on Fri, 12/31/2010 - 9:05pm.
He looks like one of the Jonas Brothers in appearance and dress. Great picture, lighting composition.
M.M.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 10:37am.
What a perfect portrait of youthful self-confidence!
Youth..
Submitted by Mr. C on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 3:21pm.
He looks like a young man with the world at his fingertips.
Maazel's First Piano Recitals
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 2:30pm.
If this photo was taken in 1918, Marvin Maazel was 19 years old (which might account for his "sophisticated" pose with the cigarette holder), and just beginning his career as a piano soloist. Managed by the Metropolitan Musical Bureau in New York, he appeared in a solo recital in Boston at Jordan Hall on the afternoon of February 3, 1918.
A brief notice of Maazel's first New York piano recital appeared in the New York Times on October 26, 1918: "Marvin Maazel, a young pianist who has appeared at the Metropolitan, gave his first recital in Aeolian Hall last evening. He is a youth of genuine musical gifts, as displayed yesterday in Bach-Busoni chaconne, the Brahms-Paganini variations, pieces by Chopin, Lizt [sic], and Russian composers, and a Strauss-Godowsky waltz."
Built to last
Submitted by Older than Yoda on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 1:05pm.
Marvin looks like a "cake eater" to me, but first impressions can be deceiving. Nevertheless, just like the table he is leaning against, he is built to last.
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