Your points are valid. To be honest, the problem came about late last night and my brain was fried. I tried several combinations until it finally compiled as you see it. The program ran and compiled, but clearly something is not allowing it to complete with total success (e.g., no 'mp3' extensions). When I get home tonight, I'll play around some more with the ampersands, pipes, and single quotes until I can hopefully meet with success. Thanks for your suggestions !!
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It's amazing how a good night's sleep can help one solve a problem. For those who ever want to do something similar using Applescript, I got it to work with these two lines...
set TheScript to "s/.*/mv '&' '&.mp3'/g"
do shell script "split -b 8667k -a1 Monday.mp3 Levin-Hour_; ls Lev* | sed " & quoted form of TheScript & "| zsh"
Bottom line - since the actual shell command included a statement with double quotes, I had to use Apple's quoted form statement to insure that the compiler read the double quotes as part of the script instead of just normal double quotes that would surround a string.