User talk:Susan Morehead

Suzi More (aka Susan Morehead)

In the 1990’s, Miss More began research into the Max Kowalski (1882-1956) a holocaust composer whose music caught her attention.

She spent several years compiling his lost songs and traveled not only to Boston, Washington, D.C.’s Library of Congress, the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center and the Leo Baeck Organization in New York City but also to libraries and music stores in England and Germany to find lost song cycles.

In addition, Miss More located both the daughter of the composer, Vera Parselle in England and the nephew, Michael Kowal in NYC.

She was able to introduce Mr. Kowal to a Publisher who specializes in German music and by 2004, 11 of Max Kowalski’s lost song cycles were reprinted in the United States, In each of the reprints, she and the nephew are cited for their contributions to bringing Kowalski’s songs back to the musical world. In 2006, Miss More was recognized by both the Berlin “Musica Reanimata and “Music of Supressed Artists in London.

These are two organizations that bring lost music of the Holocaust to life.

Miss More has taught some 24 years at the Newark School of the Arts and has been rotated with others as Chair of Voice. She has worked diligently at finding performance venues for her voice students as well as competitive events. Her students have won first and second prizes in the National Association of Teachers of Singing, New York and New Jersey chapters Student auditions for two straight years.

Miss More is also a talented songwriter and has produced three CDs (found for sale on CDBaby.com) and is busy reworking and polishing up new original material. Her newest musical project is to perform and record the lost song cycles of Max Kowalski. Her first of these recordings is now on CD Baby and affiliates entitled “Suzi More sings Max Kowalski (1882-1956) Opus 1.

She is presently working on Max Kowalski's Opus 2, Die Sonne sinkt(three poems of Nietzsche) and it will be available soon.

The other CDS available to date are “Blue” An eclectic recording of Jazz and Pop Ballads and “Up, Down, Turn Around” A compilation of years of original children’s songs which she wrote and sang in over 20 years of children's concerts.

Susan Morehead (talk) 14:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Susan Morehead[reply]

listing of websites that recognize "Max Kowalski" or his musical compositions (1)

I compiled this list in the last few hours of articles on Max Kowalski, mentioning Max Kowalski as a significant composer, as a composer of recorded works, as a friend and lawyer to Arnold Schoenberg and sites with his Pierrot Lunaire(Opus 4)in recent performances or for sale.

http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/5486103

http://ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com/articles/aufbau46.html

http://www.cjh.org/collections/findingaids.php?action=searchPartners&partner=3

http://www.cjh.org/search.php?searchTerm=Search%20CJH.org&submitMe=%5Btype+Function%5D

http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=291 An article by Herbert Freeden titled Artistic work outside Berlin

http://www.timeout.com/london/classical/event/14253/pierrot-moon-dreams.html A recent performance of Kowalski on a London Program on Sat. Oct. 20, 2007

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=121511 these are the guide to the papers of Max Kowalski

http://www.s9.com/Biography/Kowalski-Max a short bio is listed

http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/sat-l.htm satellite collection, kowalski was Schoenberg’s legal counsel

http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/lp.jsp?id=007 four listings on Kowalski

http://www.boosey.com/pages/teaching/catalogue/cat_results.asp?composerid=15873&stype=1 Pierrot Lunaire

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7416 lied and art songs of max http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedoragsearch/rest?operation=gfindObjects&indexName Yale holdings of Kowalski's music from an artists archives (Assanhein)

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/MASC/finders/cg423.htm

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/vufind/Record/5823836 kowalski song holdings

http://www.kunstraum-huell.de/konzerte-archiv/2006_11-25_pierrot.htm performance in 2006 of kowalski

http://claudet.club.fr/GhettosCamps/MusiqueKulturbund.html french website kowalski article

http://www.musica-reanimata.de/komponisten.html kowalski is listed with short bio http://www.cantate.de/Vokalmusik/Lied:::6_31.html Pierrot recording

http://www.tg.ch/xml_1/internet/de/file/modul/events/detail.cfm Performance at Fierabend College of Pierrot(2006) http://www.musica-reanimata.de/veranstaltungen.html lecture/recital of Gottfried Eberle, 1998

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/mu003012_x.pdf kowalski holdings http://www.organist.com/Boutique/enter.html target=p_747.html&lang=fr Pierrot Lunaire recording

http://books.google.com/books?id=w84ndmy9hhkC&dq=Max+kowalski,+1882-1956,&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 composers that have music on recordings

http://www.clickautographs.com/results.php?cat=3&p=3 max kowalski autograph for sale http://payplay.fm/browse/types/vocal/40 Suzi More sings Max Kowalsk CD

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=37726 Heine Lieder of kowalski http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=44293 Heine Lieder needs words

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=38056 Heine Lieder of Kowalski

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7417 Heine Lieder of Kowalski http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=19476&Transliterate=1 Heine Lieder of Kowalsi http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=32213 Heine Lieder of Kowalski

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7676 Heine Lieder of Kowalski

I hope that I have listed these listings correctly, I am not sure how to do this, I have already had the Wiki experts throw my shortened Kowalski article and his picture out of the Wikipedia. He is a composer to be noted and I am very interested in getting this message out. I welcome any help.

Susan Morehead (talk) 18:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Susan Morehead (aka Suzi More)[reply]

listing of websites that recognize "Max Kowalski" or his musical compositions (2)

This is listing of my friend, Dr.Jutta Raab Hansen's Kowalski article that appears in a German online dictionary of composers.

Jutta Raab Hansen (2008, aktualisiert am 22. Okt. 2008) http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00003097

It is in German and I do not translate well, so anyone who can read it, I know it is similar to my truncated version of my article. The longer version has many personal details about my adventures in researching and the difficulties and triumphs which I experienced in the past 15 years of my work. Susan Morehead (talk) 19:53, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Susan Morehead (aka Suzi More)[reply]

Max Kowalski, His Life and Music by Susan Morehead, a truncated version

About the Article:

I am sure that not all of the Wikipedia readers would want to read my 35 page article, I was asked in 2008 to submit such a length of article by Arbie Orenstein for the "Musica Judaica" and I am now waiting to hear if they will publish it,if not, I will do it myself online. I have had many good reviews from my peers on this article including letters from the famous accompanist and lieder coach, Dalton Baldwin and the great humanitarian, Eli Wiesel.

The article contains rare playlists of performances of Kowalski works as well as very important letters from Schoenberg and Max Rudolph and pictures of Max Kowalski and his teacher, Bernhard Sekles from a book on the teacher, which I received from Peter Cahn (the author, who I met in Frankfort).

I give the appropriate credit to the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City which appears to have the greatest holdings for Max Kowalski memorabilia.

I also mention Dr. Jutta Raab Hansen, a musicologist who resides in London at the end of the article because she has published a short bio on Max Kowalski in an online German Music Dictionary, She and I use some of the same materials but she has more access to the original language materials than I have. I am indebted to her for finding me the information about Kowalski's stay in Buchenwald.

                 Max Kowalski, His Music and Life by Susan Morehead

Max Kowalski (1882-1956) was born in Kowal, Poland. His family moved the next year to Frankfort, Germany, where he grew up, studied and earned Doctorates in both Music and Law (his specialty was Copyrights).

His teacher of compostition Bernhard was Sekles and voice, Alexander Heineman. In Germany from 1913 till 1931, Max Kowalski was a prolific composer of beautiful songs in the Romantic style. Although he was Jewish, Max Kowalski wrote music of all styles and genres, from Japanese, Chinese, Danish, Arabic, French and that of many great German authors, he even wrote a Marienlieder in his Opus 12. He was friend to many other composers, performers and artists and every song cycle he wrote was quickly published until Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich took over the country.

In the late 30's Kowalski was very involved with the "Kulterbund" in Frankfurt, Germany and his music continued to have popularity in their orchestral concerts. He is mentioned and highlighted by his presence at the concert last Kulturbund (1938) in Martin Goldsmith's book entitled "The Inextinguishable Symphony."

By the end of 1938, Kowalski was arrested and spent time in Buchenwald but within a month he was released and he fled to England where he spent the rest of his life teaching voice, singing in a synagogue and making a humble living. Although no music of his was ever published again, he kept writing new works , 17 new song cycles in manuscripts which singers performed in concerts and on radio. Opus 1 is his first composition dated 1913 and first published by Leukart in Germany.

Kowalski's musical works, except for Opus 4 (Pierrot Lunaire) had been out-of-print for many years until Dr. Walter Foster of Recital Publications in Huntsville, Texas took up the commitment to bring as many of Max Kowalski's song cycles to the public as possible.

So far, 11 of his 17 previously published cycles have been reprinted.

Catalog of Max Kowalski's Works- Published Works 
Op 1 Sechs Lieder (1913) Simrock 
Op 2 Die Sonne sinkt, Drei Gedichte von Frederich Nietzsche (1913) Simrock 
Op 3 Sechs Gesänge (1913) Simrock 
Op 4 Zwölf Gedichte aus Pierrot Lunaire (1913) Simrock 
Op 5 Drei Lieder auf Gedichte von Martin Grief (1915) 
Op 6 Klavierstücke Simrock Zwei (1913) Simrock 
Op 7 Drei Balladen von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1914) Leukart 
Op 8 Drei Gedichte von Martin Grief (1914) Leukart 
Op 9 Vier Lieder vierscheidener Dichter (1916) Simrock 
Op.10 Sechs Lieder auf alte Gedichte (1914) Simrock 
Op 11 Sechs Lieder aus dem Rokoko (1921) Simrock 
Op 12Fünf Marienlieder (1927) Leukart 
Op 13 Sechs Gedichte von Verlaine (1928) Leukart 
Op 14 Fünf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse (1931) Zimmerman 
Op 15 Sechs Gedichte von Klabunde (1930) Zimmerman 
Op 16 Fünf Lieder verschiedener Dichter (1931) Leukart 
Op 17 aus dem Sechs Lieder von Goethe westöstlichen Divan (1934) Universal

Unpublished Manuscripts 
Op 18 Sieben Gedichte von Hafiz (1933) 
[Op  19] Japanischer Frühling (10 Songs) (1934-38) 
[Op  20] zusätzliche Vier Lieder (Japanese verse) (1934-37) 
[Op  21] Fünf Jüdische Lieder (1935-37) 
[Op  22] Drei zusätzliche Jüdische Liede (1935-37) 
[Op  23] Zwölf Kinderlieder (1936) 
[Op  24] Heine-Sechs Lieder (1938) 
[Op  25] Zwölf Lieder von Li Tai Po (1938-39) 
[Op  26] Ein Liederzyklus von Omar Khayyam (1941) 
[Op  27] Acht Lieder (Hafiz) (1948) 
[Op  28] Sieben Lieder (Meyer) (1949) 
[Op  29] Sechs Lieder (Hölderlin) (1950-51) 
[Op  30] Sieben Lieder (Rilke) (1951) 
[Op  31] Geisha-Sieben Lieder) (1951) 
[Op  32] Sechs Lieder auf Gedichte Indischen (1951-52) 
[Op  33] Fünf Lieder (George) (1952) 
[Op  34] Sechs Lieder auf arabischen Gedichte (1953-54)

Two Piano Works are not listed: Ein Tango fur Vera (1933) 
Slow Fox Trot Ein fur Vera (1933)

Discography

Max Kowalski: 7 Lieder nach Texten von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Otto von Rohr (Bass), Wolfgang Rudolf (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12 "LP, o. J.

Max Kowalski: Sieben Lieder nach Rilke, Willy Berlin (Baritone), Walter Faith (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12 "LP, o.  J. 
Max Kowalski: Pierrot-Lieder, Hans Hotter (Bass-Baritone), Michael Raucheisen (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12 "LP, o.  J. 
Max Kowalski: 5 Lieder nach Hoelderlin, Otto von Rohr (Bass), Wolfgang Rudolf (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 10 "LP, o.  J. 
A Clown Behind the Masks of Music Eine Auswahl von vier von sieben verschiedenen Vertonungen Gedichten aus "Pierot moon"; darin u.  a. Max Kowalski, Auswahl aus op.  4, mit Edith Urbanczyk (Mezzo-Sopran) und Dunja Robotti (Klavier), Musicaphon, B00005LZS0, Juni 2001. 
Symposium Opera Collection 10: Paul Bender Sings 
Paul Bender (1875-1947) Recordings from 1907 to1933 ...  Previously unpublished: Pierrot Lunaire (Kowalski) - Raub No.2, No.4 & No.10 Der Dandy Die Laterne.  April 29, 2003

Sechs Lieder Opus 1 (1913) CD Baby Suzi More

1. Die Schwartze Laute 2. Im Entschlafen 3. Das Bucklicht Mannlein 4. Helle Nacht 5. Wiegenlied 6. Tanzlied

Gedichte aus Pierrot Lunaire Op 4.  Heimfahrt von Albert Giraud / Otto Erich Deutsch von Hartleben 
For voice and piano.  (or Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello, arrangement of Johannes Schöllhorn) 
German words. 
Dedication: Meiner lieben Frau gewidmet 
No. 1, Gebet an Pierrot (Prayer to Pierrot) 
No. 2, Raub (Rape) 
No. 3, Die Estrada (The Estrada) 
No 4, Der Dandy (The Dandy) 
No. 5, mocking (Mockery) 
No. 6, Sonnen Ende (A Sun's death) 
No. 7, Nordpolfahrt (Bound for the North Pole) 
No. 8, Columbine 
No. 9, (The Moon-Spot) 
No. 10, Die Laterne (The Lantern) 
No. 11, Abend (Evening Revery) 
No. 12, Heimfahrt (Homeward Bound)

Musicaphon 56837 
Symposium 1313

Lieder Op 17 von Goethe 
Sechs Lieder aus dem westöstlichen Divan / Wien: Universal, 1934 c 
For voice and piano. 
German words.

Lieder von Heine (1938) 
For voice and piano.  German words.

1. Der Tod, das ist die Nacht kühle - 23 May 1937 2. Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht - 6 Juni 1937 3. Träumte von mir einst wildem Liebesglühn - 6.XII.1937 4. Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert 5. Verstummt Pauken sind, und Posaunen Zinken

Lieder von Li-tai-po / aus dem chinesischen übertragen von Klabunde (1939) 
For voice and piano.  German words.

1. Die Beständigen - 7.6.38 2. Selbstvergessenheit - 24.VII.1938 3. Im Boot - 14.XI.1939 4. Der Silberreiher - 30.XI.1939 5. Auf der Wiese - 12.XII.1939 6. Improvisation - 19.XII.1939 7. Die Ferne Flöte - 20.XII.1939 8. Lingendes Gespenster - 21.XII.1939 9. Beim vollen Becher - 24.XII.1939

These listings of Kowalski lieder and dates will be added to in time, I have all of the Kowalski personal collection of his printed and unprinted works which were left to me at the time of his daughter, Vera's death two years ago.

Bibliography Cahn, Peter, Das Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main, 1980 Goldsmith, Martin, The Inextinguishable Symphony, Wiley& Sons, NY, 2000. Schaub, H.F., “Max Kowalski”, ZFM cxiii (1952) Gradenwitz, Peter, “Max Kowalski.” LBI Newsletter. 1982. Redlich, H.F., “In Memoriam”ZFM cxix (1957)

Discography Max Kowalski: 7 Lieder nach Texten von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Otto von Rohr, (Bass), Wolfgang Rudolf (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12“ LP, o. J. Max Kowalski: Sieben Lieder nach Rilke, Willy Berlin (Bariton), Walter Faith (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12” LP, o. J. Max Kowalski: Pierrot-Lieder, Hans Hotter (Bass-Bariton), Michael Raucheisen (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 12” LP, o. J. Max Kowalski: 5 Lieder nach Hoelderlin, Otto von Rohr (Bass), Wolfgang Rudolf (Klavier), True Tone Recording Co., 160 West 73rd St., New York, 10” LP, o. J. A Clown Behind the Masques of Music, Eine Auswahl von vier verschiedenen Vertonungen von sieben Gedichten aus „Pierot lunaire“; darin u . a.: Max Kowalski, Auswahl aus op. 4, mit Edith Urbanczyk (Mezzo-Sopran) und Dunja Robotti (Klavier), Musicaphon, B00005LZS0, Juni 2001. Symposium Opera Collection 10: Paul Bender Sings PAUL BENDER (1875-1947) Recordings from 1907 to1933 ... Previously unpublished: Pierrot Lunaire (Kowalski) - No.2 Raub, No.4 Der Dandy & No.10 Die Laterne. April 29, 2003

Other Sources Source: Archive of the Buchenwald Prisoners, Buchenwald Memorial Concentration Camp for Kowalski’s arrest and release. Source: The Leo Baeck Institute, New York for the holdings Max Kowalski’s personal memorabilia found in the Max Kowalski Collection:AR7049. Source: The Gaylord Music Libraries, for the obituary for musicologist, Peter Gradenwitz. Source: Discussions and interviews with Vera and David Parselle, Kowalski's daughter and her husband. Source: Discussions with Schoenberg author, Peter Gradenwitz (Tel Aviv) before his death. Source: The Margaret Munger Davis Special Collections Department, Boston University Library, Alexander Kinis Collection. Source: Discussions with Igor Kipnis, son of Russian Bass, Alexander Kipnis. Source: Discussions and interviews with Martin Anderson, "Suppressed Music" in London. Source: Discussions with the only living family member, Michael Kowal, a retired English Professor(Queens College)who has translated many of the Kowalski compositions. Source: Discussions with Dr. Lotte Aronsohn, cousin to Vera Parselle and her family for informing me of their personal remembrances of Max Kowalski when they were young children, this meeting, in the Summer of 2007, actually validified many theories I had formed about Kowalski's personal habits and his personality. Source: Janet Nahovec, noted medium and psychic in New Jersey, USA. for bringing Max through to me in reading several years ago.

Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge the help of the following people: Michael Kowal, New York, for help in establishing accuracy of biographical details concerning his uncle Max Kowalski, as well as Vera Parselle, her husband David Parselle, and her cousin, Dr. Lotte Aronsohn. I owe many thanks to Victor Tunkel in London, for helping me in the beginning of my project in researching Kowalski’s family, for finding the original death notice, and for alerting me to the presence of Michael Kowal in New York City. Further thanks to Wolfgang Riedel, Berlin, who helped locate archival copies of Kowalski’s published works; and to Herman Trotter, Buffalo music critic, for his gift of the 78 LP record jacket, as well as to Robert Finn for his assistance in this. Trudy Brailey, now deceased, helped me with translations, as did Barbara Van Savage; Kendell Kardt, helped with my diction in recording the works of Kowalski; thanks also to Larry Chelsi, who assisted me in the Lieder interpretations. Thanks to Dr. Walter Foster, Recital Publications, for believing in Kowalski’s importance in today’s musical repertoire; to Michael Kowal for his translations; and to Jutta Raab Hansen, for assisting in finding and translating many sources. I thank Victoria Griswold for her editorial expertise; and Angela Manso, who helped me to analyze Kowalski’s songs. Lastly, thanks go to my life partner, Myron Pytwan, who encourages me always in my work. Susan Morehead (talk) 19:40, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Susan Morehead (aka Suzi More)[reply]

Max Kowalski

Dear Susan,

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I appreciate that Wikipedia policies can be a bit of a maze to follow, so I'd love to help do what I can to see how we can come up with an article on Max Kowalski.

A few points first:

I'm not sure where you came up with my name. I don't recall being involved in this page at all and I'm not listed in the history here.
Looking at the history, most of the text was removed (see this edit) on the grounds that it was a copyright violation of http://cdbaby.com/cd/suzimore3. That website clearly says (c) but if you wrote it yourself and you own the copyright to the text then this wouldn't apply - please contact me if this is the case. Otherwise, I'm afraid you would have to re-write it so that it wouldn't breach their copyright.
Wikipedia does not generally allow "pictures of ... mountain vacation trips and their dogs" although some do slip through the net occasionally! Please feel free to nominate them for deletion or bring them to someone's attention if you find them.

Look forward to hearing from you. AndrewRT(Talk) 22:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Susan. I notice you've also got two accounts and an explanatory about the removal of the information on Max Kowalski has been noted at User_talk:Suzi_more. It may be worth putting a notice up there redirecting people here if you want to use this account instead of that one. AndrewRT(Talk) 21:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dolores Cassinelli, Model, Actress in Silent Films, Opera Singer Under Toscannini, Spanish Radio Starlet, Beloved Voice Teacher

My Personal Experience with Dolores Cassinelli....by Susan Morehead Dolores Cassinelli was my voice teacher and friend from 1968 to 1982, I knew her in Plainfield, New Jersey, which was where she and her brother (then deceased) went to live after their mother's death. I am not sure of the time that they came to Plainfield but it was possibly in the 50s. She had a multifacted career and was loved by many audiences throughout the USA and abroad. I once saw her three or four large pressbooks and recognized some of her publicity was in other languages including Japanese. I am unsure of how to use the Wikipedia and am very sorry that I am not able to add the correct characters which are needed, if someone would help me,it would be greatly appreciated. Dolores Cassinelli was a great teacher and accompanist and coach for me in my life, she taught me many arias in Italian, French and English. Many styles from Operatic to Oratorio to Jazz and I have her to thank for a great treasury of technical exercises which to this day I have intergrated into my own vocal teaching methods. She had known Enrico Caruso, Tito Schipa, Mario Lanza, Benjamino Gigli and so many more great singers whom she sang with. I saw pictures of her in her pressbook, playing billiards with Tito Schipa. My sources are personal experience. The only proof I have is a copy of one beautiful picture of Dolores from the opera Carmen by Bizet which I would gladly upload but I am unsure of how to do this. I will try. She was simply an amazing person with a sense of wit about her and I would like the Wiki people to be set straight on how amazing a musician this lady was, she could play arias in several keys a great talent in case a student wasn't feeling so hot and needed a transposition down a few steps. She attended my first wedding when I was 25 but by my divorce and remarriage a few years later, she was in the King James Nursing Home near New Brunswick, New Jersey, still playing the piano and bringing joy to all around her. I remember her saying to me "You know, some of these people here are really old, like 103." A few years later, we weren't living near enough to see her and I heard that she had died. I felt bad not going to see her the last few years but at that point, she did not recognize her students and it was very painful. When she died, Miss Cassinelli, as we always called her, may have been a few years older than we think. Being very vain, she would often lie about her age.Susan Morehead (talk) 05:10, 6 July 2011 (UTC)Susan Morehead (aka Suzi More)[reply]