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Carl Michael Cave
Male 1944 - 1991

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  • Birth  17 May 1944  Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  1991 
    Cause: complications of AIDS 
    Buried  Callaway Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I9054  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  01 Apr 2009 
     
    Father  Carl Sanford Cave,   b. 1903, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Dec 1983 
    Mother  Thelma Daily,   b. 8 May 1914, Thompson, , Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Oct 2007, Wainwright, Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  16 Aug 1941  Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F470  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Living 
    Children 
     1. Melody Alleyne Cave,   b. 6 Jun 1970, , , California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1987
    Last Modified  01 Apr 2009 
    Family ID  F14348524  Group Sheet
     
  • Headstones
    Carl Michael Cave    		 Carl Michael Cave
    Carl Michael Cave, May 17, 1944 - 1997. Carl Michael Cave was a son of Carl Sanford Cave and Thelma Daily. He was a grandson of Henry Shannon Cave and Rose Nell Sanford, and, Rousseau Daily and Ona Nell Goodnight. He was my 4th cousin.…
     
  • Notes 
    • The following is taken from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Columbia
      University of Missouri / State Historical Society of Missouri

      Carl Michael Cave was born on May 17, 1944, to Carl Sanford Cave and Thelma Daily Cave in Springfield, Missouri. His father was the principal of the School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, and his mother taught English at the school. Michael's brother Shannon was born in 1949. The family moved to Rolla, Missouri, in 1956, where Carl Cave taught mathematics at the School of Mines and Thelma Cave taught English at Rolla High School.

      Michael showed a talent for music at an early age and began to take piano and organ lessons. He also enjoyed writing plays and had an ear for languages. After graduating from Rolla High School in 1962, he went to Washington University in St. Louis to continue his music studies.

      After one year at Washington University Cave decided to pursue his musical career in his own way and moved to California. While giving recitals and concerts throughout southern California he pursued a degree at the California Institute of the Arts. In 1969 he married Judyth Walker. A daughter Melody Alleyne was born on June 6, 1970. Cave received a master's degree at the University of Southern California and began working at the Westlake School for Girls as a music teacher and lectured in piano at UCLA.

      In 1976 Cave moved his wife and daughter to his parents home near Jefferson City, Missouri, while he went on a concert tour of Europe, something he had dreamed about and planned for many years. He and Judyth divorced in 1977.

      After returning to California Cave and others founded the Creative Society to organize and support recitals in small venues for "talented but not-yet-famous professionals in classical music." The society wished to bring talented performers to smaller concert halls so that people didn't have to travel to the "big city" to hear classical music. The society existed until Cave's death, but its most active time was from 1977 to 1981.

      Beginning in the 1970s Cave also worked on what he called the Mozart Project, dealing with the twenty-one piano concerti of Mozart. Cave wrote "cadenzas, lead-ins, and embellishments" (CLE) as well as "orchestra reductions" (OR) for these works. Apparently much of Mozart's "connecting" music was lost when he died. Cave taught this music to various people at various places over the years. In 1985 he received money from Loyola Marymount University, where he was then teaching, to put on a year long "Mozart Project" including concerts, an "akademie" where he taught music teachers and students, a festival in which students competed for prizes, and organizing a friends of music.

      Besides teaching and performing Cave was also a composer of both choral and orchestral works, and his later work was often commissioned by individuals and organizations. Among his more popular works were Five New Age Songs, Ecclesiastes, and his "Classic" and "Romantic" Sonatas.

      Cave's daughter Melody died in 1987 of complications from cancer. Cave died in 1991 from complications of AIDS.
     
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