Lane, Mary C.

Cellist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra who went on to join the Angelus Piano Trio and do some session and movie work.

Her time in Buffalo included many appearances at Baird Recital Hall and other venues, frequently performing works that are rather out of the mainstream, like William Albright’s “Salvos”, Rudolf Komorous’s “Olympia”, and Petr Kotik’s “Music for 3”. (Curiously, it requires musicians totaling seven.)

Her appearances with the South Bay Chamber Music Society, Inc. were no less eclectic: On 27^thFebruary 1976, as one third of the aforementioned Angelus Piano Trio, she performed a program that ranged from Beethoven and Mendelssohn to 20^th-century composer, Paul Chihara. Three years later, she returned to the SBCMS, with different cohorts, to perform “Three Songs for Marlboro for Horn and Cello” by David Amram and Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello”.

In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, she ventured into the recording studio to offer support on Freddie Hubbard’s Ride like the Wind and Frank Sinatra’s boxed set, Trilogy. She also helped set the mood in Lalo Schifrin’s scores for Brubaker and The Amityville Horror. In 1992, she worked as a consultant on the Andy Garcia-Uma Thurman thriller Jennifer Eight as—what else—a cello teacher.

Here is Sergio Mendes’ “Kisses” from his Confetti which Mary performs on…

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Lane, Mary C.

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