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Subject: [Leica] OT: Music by Norman Cazden
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri Apr 14 20:29:16 2006

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


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