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Subject: [Leica] OT: Music by Norman Cazden
From: leowesson at charter.net (leo)
Date: Sat Apr 15 16:12:43 2006
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20060414182432.00bebd40@mail.2alpha.com>

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/listofcollectionsA-D.html

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/NewYork.html

http://lcweb5.loc.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/1904876/sonic.txt

Peter,

A few hits from the library of congress, no online recordings...looks  
like he did a bit of field work.

leo


On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Peter Klein wrote:

> This is totally OT.  But there are a number of people with affinity  
> for classical music in the Leica world, and I'll take any help I  
> can get on this one.  So here goes.
>
> I am trying to find music--both recorded and printed--by my late  
> teacher, Norman Cazden.  Norman was an accomplished composer,  
> pianist and musicologist. whose career was severely diminished by,  
> shall we say, certain well-known events of the early 1950s.
>
> There are two pieces in particular that I want very much to get  
> hold of.  One is a Suite for Violin and Piano, probably written in  
> or around 1940.  I heard it in early 1975, when I turned pages for  
> Norman a rehearsal at the University of Maine at Orono, ME, where  
> he spent his last decade).  It was recorded much before that, on a  
> private label.  This snip is from a listing at "mikrokosmos.com"  
> that I only came upon after the recording was sold:
>
> Balokovic, Zlatko: Kreisler: Prel & Allegro; Cazden: Suite; Bach- 
> Cazden:  Siciliano B.1063 -
> Cazden,Bensussan pno (single sided) ! PRIVATE RECORDS F-BC
>
> The other major piece is called "Three Ballads from the  
> Catskills" (1949).  It is recorded by Composers' Recordings, Inc.  
> on their catalog #CRI-117.  Also on another label, probably the  
> same music, SD117.  This recording also includes music by  
> Wallingford Riegger and Jacob Avshalomov.
>
> Finally, if anyone knows the whereabouts of, or how to contact a  
> violinist by the name of Dora Short (married name might be Dora  
> Short-Mullins), please let me know.  She was the violinist in that  
> 1975 performance of Cazden's  Suite for Violin and Piano mentioned  
> above.  I believe she was or is on the faculty of Old Dominion  
> University in Virginia, and may have performed there as recently as  
> last year:
> http://www.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/IA/university_news.nsf/articles/ 
> 02162005093813AM
>
> Thanks for the bandwidth, and for any help!
> --Peter
>
>
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