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Edward Joseph Collins
Music of Edward Joseph Collins Vol. 6
Until Collins' lone opera, The Daughter of the South, is recorded, at least we have this recording of his monumental cantata, Hymn to the Earth.

William Bolcom

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

University of Michigan School of Music

3 CD / Naxos American Classics (2004)

Silas Gamaliel Pratt

Lincoln In Story: The Life Of The Martyr-President Told In Authenticated Anecdotes

1901

Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky (novel)

Ecco 1998

Roger Sessions

When Lilacs Lasst in the Dooryard Bloom'd (cantata)

Quivar, Boston Symphony/Ozawa

CD / New World 80296 (1992)

Hymn to the Earth (choral work)

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Edward Joseph Collins

Music of Edward Joseph Collins Vol. 6

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Allsop

CD / Albany (2004)

Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Storybook based on the opera)

William Morrow 1986

Marc Blitzstein

Cradle Will Rock (1999 film based on the premiere of Blitzstein's opera)

DVD / Buena Vista Home Video (1999)

Arthur Miller

A View From the Bridge (original play)

Dramatists Play Service 1955

John Knowles Paine

St. Peter (oratorio)

Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra/Schuller

CD / Gm Recordings 2027 (1994)