Levee Dance, Op. 27, No. 2

Composer: WHITE, Clarence Cameron
  • White composed Levee Dance for violin and piano in 1927.1
  • This piece attained popularity as one of Jascha Heifetz’s favorite encores.2
  • This piece incorporates the melody of the spiritual Go Down, Moses.3

Sources

  1. Thomas Riis, “White, Clarence Cameron,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 27, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000030207.
  2. “Levee Dance Op. 27, No. 2 for Violin and Piano,” C.F. Fischer, accessed January 26, 2022, https://www.carlfischer.com/b3464-levee+dance.html.
  3. Clarence Cameron White, Levee Dance , ed. Dunja Lavrova (New York: Carl Fischer, 2017), 4.

Cut IDs

22484