Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I get a lot of Google.com hits from his name and works. You have googled this to death I assume. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Peter Klein Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:57 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] OT: Music by Norman Cazden 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/021620050938 13AM Thanks for the bandwidth, and for any help! --Peter _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information