CD Volume 04

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Brief reunion: The four black-and white photos were taken in Paris in Spring of 1956 when Ted and Diana were on tour with the Robert Shaw Chorale and Lenny was studying at the Paris Conservatory.

The color photo was sent in November of 2013 to Diana shortly after Lenny’s funeral by his widow, Suzanne. More detail in Diana’s note to Marianne.
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In 1952, when Ted Puffer completed his US Army basic training in Augusta, GA, his next assignment was at the Army Language Institute in Monterey, CA. After the hot, sticky ordeal of Georgia, California was like heaven. Only by happenstance, his arrival at Fort Ord was at the same time as that of Lenny Klein, a former student of Egon Petri and Darius Milhaud, who neither Ted nor Diana had ever met before.Ted and Diana lived off base in Pacific Grove which many locals called “Pacific Grave” because it was such a sleepy town at night. That irony was not lost on Diana when, over six decades later, she requested her remains be scattered at a favorite picnic spot about one mile from where they resided and where, when we’d visit Winnie in Carmel (1980-2002), she and i would observe the currents from the Monterey Bay cross those of the Pacific Ocean. What Diana never knew was that, in 2007, “our spot” was where John Denver crashed his plane.

Petite Suite – Claude Debussy

Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 15 – Aresky

Scaramouche (Suite en trois mouvements) – Milhaud

Jamaican Rumba (1938) – Arthur Benjamin

Andante (5th movement) from German Requiem, Op. 46 (sung in English)

The accompaniment was the National Adventist Choral Society and Symphony, under Francisco De Araujo on 23 May 1971.