Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I've located a source for "Three Ballards from the Catskills", Opus 52. The catalog entry is <http://tinyurl.com/p23q4>. The New York Pubic Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincon Center Plaza New York, NY 10023-7498 212.870.1630 <http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html> Cheers, John On 4/14/06, Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >