Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information