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Lowndes Maury ’31 (1911-1975)
Beginning in the 1930s, Lowndes Maury built a career in Hollywood as a pianist, composer-arranger, and conductor. For a time he worked on twelve radio shows simultaneously, including Life with Father and The Life of Riley. He wrote film scores for Universal Pictures and Mr. Magoo cartoons. Maury also composed classical works, including the cantata Proud Music of the Storm for the dedication of UM’s Music Building in 1953; Summer of Green, a rhapsody for alto flute and string orchestra, premiered by the New Zealand National Orchestra; and Variations on a Beethoven Theme, commissioned and recorded by harpsichordist Igor Kipnis. In later years he established the Lou Maury Piano School in North Hollywood where he developed a new approach to music notation.
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