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[[File:Eisenberg-Patrick.jpg|thumb|220px|Ruth Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick playing piano, using one hand each.]]
'''Ebony and Ivory''' was the name given to two elderly women in [[New Jersey]], one white and one black, who played classical piano together. Both had == Background ==
[[Margaret Patrick]] (1913–1994) grew up in [[Harlem]] and started playing the piano at the age of eight. She accompanied singers and orchestras from the time she was a young girl and was often called on to play the piano while in high school. At the age of 16, she graduated with honors from the Martin Smith Conservatory of Music. After getting married in 1933, she continued accompanying singers and orchestras. She also taught piano and conducted a church choir in the [[Bronx]]. One of the highpoints in her work was directing a choir that once sang with [[Duke Ellington]] and his orchestra.<ref name="McCall's">Jeannie Ralston. "Ebony and Ivory: 'A miracle brought us together' " ''McCall's'' magazine (October 1986) pages 91-92</ref><ref name="New York Times">Georgia Dullea. "[
[[Ruth Brewer Eisenberg]] (1902–1996) played piano for many years. She had a few lessons as a young child, but they were early discontinued. After getting married in 1923, she was taught by her husband, [[Jacob Eisenberg (musician)|Jacob Eisenberg]], a pianist, teacher and author. He wanted to try out his teaching methods on his wife, but she hated to practice. In order to get her to practice, he promised to do all the housework for her and she agreed. Later, she accompanied him on a lecture tour of the United States, playing the piano to illustrate her husband's piano technique and how his methods could help an adult learn to play the piano.<ref name="McCall's" /><ref name="New York Times" /> After his death in 1964, she sold their piano, but later missed having it and she bought another one, playing for eight hours the first day. She began to give short concerts to area senior citizen groups, but these were cut short in November 1982, when she had a stroke. She was in therapy for months and although she learned to walk again, she remained disabled on her left side. She was, however, able to return to her apartment in [[Cliffside Park]], New Jersey.<ref name="McCall's" /><ref>Kathryn Linderman. "Pianists Ruth Eisenberg and Margaret Patrick - Two Relied On Teamwork To Help Themselves Triumph Over Disabilities." ''Investor's Business Daily,'' (March 6, 2000)</ref>
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In late 1982, Patrick began going for therapy at Southeast Senior Center for Independent Living. Eisenberg started coming in early 1983 and a month later, the program director saw Eisenberg, depressed, fiddling at the piano with one hand. Eisenberg told ''McCall's,'' "I was doodling at the piano ... with one hand, feeling sorry for myself, wishing I were dead. I didn't want to talk to anyone. Then Millie [the program director] walks up behind me with Margaret and tells me that she plays the piano and says, 'Why don't you two try to get together?' And immediately we got to talking about Chopin. And then we sat down at the piano and played Chopin's 'Minute Waltz'. I played the treble with my right hand; she played the bass with her left. I was elated to play my music again, and we found out we knew all the same pieces."<ref name="McCall's" />
They began practicing at the Senior Center and occasionally at Eisenberg's apartment. In May 1983, a senior citizen center in [[Teaneck]], New Jersey asked them to play at a party. Their story appeared in local newspapers and they began getting invitations to play at other area hospitals and senior centers.<ref name="McCall's" /><ref>"[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20097822,00.html For Two New Jersey Grannies Misfortune Sets the Stage for a Musical Collaboration]" ''People magazine'' (December 14, 1987) page 121. Accessed Feb. 18, 2010</ref> A local reporter dubbed them ''Ebony and Ivory'' and the name stuck.<ref name="Park City Daily News">Bard Lindeman. "[
== International human interest story ==
Their story went national after being picked up by
Eisenberg and Patrick's story was included in a book by [[Norman Vincent Peale]]<ref>{{
== Partial list of television and radio appearances ==
===Television===
* "New Jersey and You" [[WOR-TV]] (December 1983) Interview and performance
* "PM Magazine" (May 24, 1984) Performance
* "CBS News" (October 21, 1985) Interview with [[Morry Alter]] (won an award)
* "Good Morning America" with David Hartman, ABC (September 9, 1986) Interview
* *The Morning Show" with Regis Philbin, ABC (October 1986) Interview
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== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
*[http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=562605 "NBC Evening News for Friday, May 6, 1988"] [[Vanderbilt Television News Archive]], Record No. 562605. Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
*Jacob Eisenberg. [http://nettheim.com/pachmann/documents/1924-02-xx-musician-article-eisenberg.html "De Pachmann Preaches Economy of Motion"] ''The Musician,'' Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 1924). Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
*[http://tusach.tuoitre.com.vn/ArticleView.aspx?ArticleID=263521&ComponentID=1 Vietnamese online newspaper]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Accessed Feb. 18, 2010 {{
== Sermons and religious articles ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080820182652/http://www.st-cuthberts.net/crgnl01.htm Sermon], St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Scotland. Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080820055750/http://www.epulpit.net/010408.htm Sermon] (April 8, 2001) Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
*[http://www.calvarythunderbay.ca/resources/CCFeb2010.pdf Church newsletter]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (PDF) Calvary Lutheran Church, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (February 2010). Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
*[http://www.firstbaptist-mtlkterr.org/Worship/2007sermons/Sermon071111.pdf Sermon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726055028/http://www.firstbaptist-mtlkterr.org/Worship/2007sermons/Sermon071111.pdf |date=2011-07-26 }} (PDF), First Baptist Church, Mountlake Terrace, WA (November 11, 2007). Accessed Feb. 18, 2010
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