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Spizizen created free lunchtime concert series in public venues such as shopping malls in San Diego and Tucson. She formed the
Arizona Early Music Society and served as its president, and co-founded the Basically Baroque Symposium at the University of California San Diego. She received two
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University of California. She published music reviews and criticism in the La Jolla Light, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Reader, and Tucson Weekly, as well as articles in various music journals (listed below). She appeared as an accompanist,
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Spizizen spent the last decade of her life working on a biography of pianist Johana Harris, who she believed had actually composed some of the works published by Roy Harris. She died before completing the biography. Spizizen’s correspondence with author and composer
19:(August 24, 1928 - July 2, 2010) was an American composer, critic, harpsichordist/pianist, and singer. She is best remembered today for her research and controversial claim that pianist
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1949-1952 music director, Interplayers Inc. (New York)
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