Miscellaneous Music (Related to Kent State Shootings), 1970-2005
May 4 Collection -- Boxes 183, 183A, 183B
Finding Aid
Prepared by Nancy Birk, September 27, 2002; updated December 2010
1 half-size record storage box, 1 LP box and one oversize box, 1.5 cubic feet,
12th floor
Scope and Content
This box contains a miscellany of LP's, audio cassettes, sheet music, CDs and
accompanying materials related to the May 4 Kent State shootings. All audio
recordings in this collection are for listening only. Reproductions will not
be made of audio recordings.
May 4 Collection -- Box 183: Cassettes, CDs, and related documents
Folder -- Contents
Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records, 1981.
Composed and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. (CASSETTE)
"They All Look The Same" from Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,
RCA Records, 1981. Composed and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer:
Jack Lewis. Includes letter from Jim McKinney about this song. (CASSETTE)
"Live in Dublin, Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, & Jimmy Faulkner". Includes
song, "Hey Sandy" about Sandra Scheuer: 1989. (CASSETTE)
Magpie, Give Light, 1999. Includes song "Kent" dedicated to the students
who lost their lives at Kent State and at Jackson State. (CD)
"Blame it on Tito" by the Kent rock group, Dink. Includes adaptation of
Neil Young's "Ohio". Manufactured by Capital Records, 1996. (CD)
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, So Far. Includes "Ohio". Digitally
remastered by Atlantic Recording Corp., 1974. (CD)
"Student Demonstration Time" -- The Beach Boys (see Box 183A for record
album) (CASSETTE)
Harvey Andrews,Writer of Songs [includes the song "Hey! Sandy" written
about Sandy Scheuer. Digitally remastered], 1972. (CD)
Autumn's Child, featuring Mark Holland, Progressive World includes
the song "Inquire, Learn, Reflect," Cedar 'n' Sage Music, 2002.
(CD)
The Kent State May 4 CD Project [Produced by the May 4 Task Force]. [2-CD
set]. Disc One: "Witnesses and Tributes"; Disc Two: "Fellow
Travelers" [Includes musical selections interspersed with interviews.
Includes tracks by Lester, Magpie, The Pretenders, Andy Cohen, Dink, Harvey
Andrews, Joe Walsh, Chris Butler, The Numbers Band, Guy Pernetti, Matt Thompson,
Holly Near, Tiny Alice, Blech and Hart, Rolly Brown, House of Sectionals,
The Impossebulls w/ Chuck D, Kent 25, Pat Humphries, Jimi Imig, Full Wave
Rectifier, The Patrick Sweany Band, Tin Huey, The Mickeys, The Manhatten Transfer,
Sue Jeffers, Twistofs, Jackob Ward, The Waterband, Troy Gregorino, and Yoko
Ono], 2005. (CD) (2 discs)
American Symphony Orchestra. The Stokowski Concert Collection.
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, May 8, 1970. Includes selections
from Barber, Bach, Handel, Scriabin, Chopin, and Casals with commentary from
orchestra members and Stokowski in between musical pieces. From liner
notes: "This spontaneous and unrehearsed concert took place in memory
of the killed students and as an appeal to stop the war." (CD)
Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. Performance at Kent State University
by Hawthorne School Performing Group of Washington DC, May 8th, 1971. (CASSETTE)
Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. Performance at Kent State University
by Hawthorne School Performing Group of Washington DC, May 9th, 1971. (CD)
(2 discs)
Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. 1971 performances by Hawthorne School
Performing Group of Washington DC. Clippings, program, program notes, and
libretto, [1971]
Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies and Excerpts from Opera Flies,
Kent State University, 1995.
Flyers, clippings, ticket, and programs for the Excerpts, March 22,
1995
Flyers, clippings, and program, May 4, 1995
VHS recording of performance by the KSU Wind Ensemble, conducted by
Wayne Gorder, May 4, 1995
Dave Brubeck, Truth Is Fallen / Two Generations of Brubeck, 2000.
CD of 2 original LPs originally released in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Truth
Is Fallen was commissioned by the Midland Symphony Orchestra for the
dedication of the Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, Michigan. "The
music is dedicated to the slain students of Kent University and Mississippi
[ie. Jackson] State, and all other innocent victims caught in the cross-fire
between repression and rebellion" [from the liner notes by Dave Brubeck].
(CD)
Requiem Mass in C Minor on May 22-June 3, 1970.
Miscellaneous Files relating to the performance.
Augusta Read Thomas, Song in Sorrow [orchestral and choral piece
commissioned by Cleveland Orchestra and Kent State University in memory of
the shooting deaths of four students; includes texts of Shelley; world premiere
at Blossom Music Center, July 1, 2000]
Steve Miller Band, Number 5, Capitol Records, 1970. (CD)
May 4 Task Force. the Kent State May 4 CD Project. 2005. (CD)
May 4 Collection -- Box 183A: LPs
The Beach Boys, Surf's Up, Warner Bros. Records. Includes song "Student
Demonstration Time." 1971.
Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records. Composed
and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. 1981.
Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records. Composed
and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. 1981.
Voices of Freedom; The Story of America's Citizen Solidier in the National
Guard, RCA Records. Narrated by David Janssen. [no date].
May 4 Collection -- Box 183B: Sheet Music
Folder -- Contents
"Kinder-Totenlieder" ("Songs on the Death of Children), Copied Sheet Music, by Gustav Mahler; Poems by Friedrich Rueckert, [no date]
"Ohio", Neil Young (w & m), Cotillion Music, Inc. & Broken
Arrow Music, 1970. 2 pp.
"Opera Flies", In Three Acts and Epilogue (Act I- Vekeero, Act
II- Duet and Civil, Act III- Mad Arena, Epilogue- Jello). Halim El-Dabh
(w & m), 1970-71. 120 pp.
"Flowers For The Departed", Daniel John (m), Alan Paton (w),
1971. 8 pp. (3 copies)
"Songs For May 4th", Daniel Jahn (m), Alex Gildzen, Donald M.
Hassler, Marilyn Heck Headley, George H. Kotok, Denise Leverton, Alan Paton
(w), 1974. 13 pp.
"The Outskirts of Time", Brass Quintet No. 1 in 5 Movements.
W.H. Mark Hill (m), I.N.J., 1990. 71 pp.