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[ARSCLIST] Seeking Edward J. Collins Recordings
I've been asked to post the following message on behalf of Jon Becker
(Jonbecker@xxxxxxx). Please respond to Jon directly as he does not
subscribe to the list. FYI- none of these recordings are in the CSO
Archives, nor is there any particular reason to believe they are extant.
Brenda Nelson-Strauss
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CALL FOR RECORDINGS
Edward Joseph Collins, American composer/pianist/conductor (1886-1951)
CONTACT: Jon Becker, Coordinator, Edward Joseph Collins Project (
www.EdwardJ Collins.org)
Arts & Education Consultant
POB 3292, Madison, WI 53704 USA
877.223.8068 toll free tel / 608.469.0316 cell / 608.242.8525 tel / fax
The Collins project aims to restore the composer's music legacy, with a
priority on digital engraving and recording of all the music. Seven CDs
are already available from Albany Records and two more are planned,
toward a complete recorded anthology.
The only extant recording of the composer is some silent film footage of
him performing at a grand piano, likely his own composition "The 5:48",
an evocation of a Chicago commuter train), probably from the 1940s.
The project is seeking additional recordings, for research purposes and
for possible inclusion in the anthology or on a website ( www.EdwardJ
Collins.org).
The following occasions are the most likely to have been filmed,
recorded, or broadcast.
US Army 88th Division (intelligence) doughboys
(dancers, actors, singers, chorus, and orchestra)
Champs Elysses Theatre, Paris, France
12-17 MAY 1919 Who Can Tell?
* music theater work (burlesque) for which Collins
composed music, while in military service during and after WWI
* President Wilson and Gen. Pershing attended
17MAY1919 performance (possible sound or film recording?)
* was also performed in Madison WI 1921-22, a city
where radio broadcasting was begun earlier in the century
* Collins received a post-WWI bandmaster
appointment by John Phillips Sousa
Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances (w/ possible
radio broadcasts)
Orchestra Hall, Chicago; Frederick Stock, conductor
(unless otherwise noted)
28-29 MAR 1924 Mardi Gras
27-28 MAR 1925 Concerto for Piano, E-flat Major (No. 1) [Ed Jos
Collins, soloist]
04-05 MAR 1927 Tragic Overture
03-04 DEC 1931 Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra (No. 2) [Ed Jos
Collins, soloist]
17-18 APR 1941 Lament and Jig (one variation from the multi-composer
work Variations on an American Folk-Song)
05-06 MAR 1942 Tragic Overture [Ed Jos Collins, conductor]
25-26 MAR 1943 Concerto for Piano, B Minor (No. 3) [Ed Jos Collins,
soloist]
band (name unknown) with soloist soprano Olive
Arthur, concerts (w/radio broadcasts, likely live)
Grant Park Band Shell, Chicago; conductor unknown
18 & 26 JUL 1939 Daughter of the South (opera, in one act)
* selection(s) arranged for soprano with band, by
someone other than the composer, incl. 'Mary Lou's aria'
* Collins wrote in his journal that the 2nd
performance's broadcast was heard by relatives in Fish Creek WI and
Joliet IL
"Monte Parnassus" radio hour; Monte Hall, host
3 FEB 1940 * Lecture on the "problems of the composer" by
Collins, broadcast live
* Collins wrote in his journal that the radio
broadcast was heard by relatives in Joliet IL
WOR radio station, New York City
Alfred "Wally" Wallenstein, musical director
> 21 NOV 1940 Lil' David Play on Yo' Harp for orchestra
* Collins wrote in his journal that he made an
arrangement of this piano solo work
after his friend Wally promised to perform it
* formerly a Chicago SO cellist, Wallenstein also
became director of an NBC orchestra series,
that was broadcast following Toscanini series
show