Samuel Mayes

Samuel Houston Mayes was an American cellist.

Biography

Mayes was born on August 11, 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri and from the age of four began playing cello with the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra.^[1] When he turned 12^[2] he went to Philadelphia where attended Curtis Institute of Music under a direction of Felix Salmond,^[1] and later on, joined its Orchestra where he became the principal cellist in 1936. He held that position in 1948 at the Boston Symphony Orchestra till he returned to Philly by 1964. He joined Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1973 abandoning Philadelphia one that way and the two years later became a faculty member at the University of Michigan. He was 73 years of age when he died on August 24, 1990 in Mesa, Arizona.^[2]

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