Miscellaneous Music (Related to Kent State Shootings), 1970-2005

Finding Aid

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

1. Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records, 1981. Composed and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. (CASSETTE)
   
   
2. "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)
   
   
3. "Live in Dublin, Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, & Jimmy Faulkner". Includes song, "Hey Sandy" about Sandra Scheuer: 1989. (CASSETTE)
   
   
4. Magpie, Give Light, 1999. Includes song "Kent" dedicated to the students who lost their lives at Kent State and at Jackson State. (CD)
   
   
5. "Blame it on Tito" by the Kent rock group, Dink. Includes adaptation of Neil Young's "Ohio". Manufactured by Capital Records, 1996. (CD)
   
   
6. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, So Far. Includes "Ohio". Digitally remastered by Atlantic Recording Corp., 1974. (CD)
   
   
7. "Student Demonstration Time" -- The Beach Boys (see Box 183A for record album) (CASSETTE)
   
   
8. Harvey Andrews,Writer of Songs [includes the song "Hey! Sandy" written about Sandy Scheuer. Digitally remastered], 1972. (CD)
   
   
9. Autumn's Child, featuring Mark Holland, Progressive World includes the song "Inquire, Learn, Reflect," Cedar 'n' Sage Music, 2002. (CD)
   
   
10. 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)
    
    
11. 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)
    
    
12. Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. Performance at Kent State University by Hawthorne School Performing Group of Washington DC, May 8th, 1971. (CASSETTE)
    
    
13. Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. Performance at Kent State University by Hawthorne School Performing Group of Washington DC, May 9th, 1971. (CD) (2 discs)
    
    
14. Halim El-Dabh, Opera Flies. 1971 performances by Hawthorne School Performing Group of Washington DC. Clippings, program, program notes, and libretto, [1971]
    
    
15. 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
      
      
16. 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)



17. Requiem Mass in C Minor on May 22-June 3, 1970.
Miscellaneous Files relating to the performance.


18. 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 Collection -- Box 183A: LPs

1. The Beach Boys, Surf's Up, Warner Bros. Records. Includes song "Student Demonstration Time." 1971.
   
   
2. Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records. Composed and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. 1981.
   
   

3. Kent State: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, RCA Records. Composed and produced by Ken Lauber; Executive Producer: Jack Lewis. 1981.

4. 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

1. "Kinder-Totenlieder" ("Songs on the Death of Children), Copied Sheet Music, by Gustav Mahler; Poems by Friedrich Rueckert, [no date]

2. "Ohio", Neil Young (w & m), Cotillion Music, Inc. & Broken Arrow Music, 1970. 2 pp.

3. "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.

4. "Flowers For The Departed", Daniel John (m), Alan Paton (w), 1971. 8 pp. (3 copies)

5. "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.

6. "The Outskirts of Time", Brass Quintet No. 1 in 5 Movements. W.H. Mark Hill (m), I.N.J., 1990. 71 pp.