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1886-1905: Joliet & Chicago

 

Bridget (McIntyre) Collins,
EJC’s mother

Peter Collins,
EJC’s father

EJC, formal (suit)

Piano Trio program,
Chicago, 1904

 

1906-12: Berlin & Chicago

Konzert Program Berlin, 1910

Article, Joliet (1912)

EJC, Formal
(suit, striped tie)

EJC, Formal
(suit, solid tie)

EJC, Formal
(tux)

1912-13: Chicago & New York City

EJC, standing,
with scores (New York)

Century Opera,
New Theatre
(exterior, 1909)

Century Opera,
New Theatre
(interior, 1909)

Review,
Century Opera
(1913 or 1914)

EJC, advertisement,
with Ganz (Chicago)

1914: Bayreuth, Germany

     

EJC, with sister Katherine Hoffmann,
contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink

EJC, Schumann-Heink (in car, right), and two others (unidentified)

     

1918-19: Western Front, France (WWI & Armistice)

 

U.S. Army Registration Card
(29 April 1918) (pdf)

EJC, in uniform,
alley (Gondrecourt, France)

EJC, in uniform,
with French family (Gondrecourt, France)

EJC, in uniform,
with French family’s daughter (Gondrecourt, France)

 
 

Who Can Tell? Armistice music revue Paris, 1919

Playbill (cover) (pdf)

Souvenir booklet (pdf

88th Division history (excerpt) (pdf)

Gen. Weigel letter to Lt. Fairall (18 February 1922) (pdf

 

EJC, in uniform (France)

EJC, crossing Atlantic back to USA (with couple, names unknown)

EJC, in uniform, saluting (Chicago)

EJC, in uniform, standing (Chicago)

EJC, in uniform, with Frieda Mayer (Chicago)

 
   

EJC medal, 88th Infantry

EJC, garment bag

EJC, garment bag (close-up)

   

1911-51: Chicago & Door County, Wisconsin

1910

   

Frieda (Mayer) Collins

EJC recital review, The Music News, Chicago, 1913?

EJC recital program, Bush Conservatory (Chicago, 12 July 1917) (pdf)

   

1920

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, daughter Dorothy Collins, EJC

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC close-up

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC (in white clothing)

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, friends, EJC

 

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC & relatives

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC (Holy Hill, WI)

EJC, Way of the Cross station (Holy Hill, WI)

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, friar, friends, EJC (Holy Hill, WI)

EJC, in boat (Cedar Lake, WI)

 

Oscar Mayer manor, Sheridan Dr (Chicago)

Katherine (Collins) Hoffmann (sister), EJC

Katherine (Collins) Hoffmann (sister), EJC (article) (pdf)

Passport application, EJC (1920) (pdf)

Passport application, Katherine Hoffmann, sister (1920) (pdf)

 

Article, Set of Four contest (Chicago) (pdf)

Program, Schumann-Heink, EJC (22 October 1920, UMS (Ann Arbor, MI) (pdf)

Article, Arabesque performance, Leo Sowerby (2 October 1925) (pdf)

Article, Stock performance of 1914 aka Tragic Overture (22 August 1926, NYC (pdf)

Article, Passacaglia 2pf arr. premiere (1 November 1931) (New York City) (pdf)

1930

EJC, formal portrait, profile

EJC, formal portrait

EJC, in automobile

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, EJC (costumed)

Irish tenor
John McCormack, EJC (Chicago)

 
 

EJC, review 4
December 1931

EJC,article
Joliet, 1935

EJC, review,
Chicago Tribune,
May, 1936

Bispham medal article, Chicago, 1939?

 

1940

Frieda (Mayer) Collins, wife & friends (Centennial Celebration)

EJC and children (Door County, WI)

Collins Log Home The Hermitage (Door County, WI)

Composer Studio (Door County, WI)

Bispham Medal, for EJC opera Daughter of the South

 

EJC, at studio piano, American Conservatory (Chicago)

EJC teaching studio, Fine Arts Building (Chicago)

EJC, post-concert, formal attire (Chicago)

Article, Lament and Jig, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1941) (pdf)

Review, Lament and Jig, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1941) (pdf)

1940

EJC, standing,
in white suit (Chicago)

EJC, hands

EJC, death certificate (pdf)

EJC, Death report
(New York Times) (jpg)

EJC, Death report
(New York Times) (pdf)

1951-Present (various)

Portrait (by Joseph Ciardello)

Signature (by Patrick Flynn, PJBF Design)

List, Chicago SO Rosenthal Archives holdings (pdf)

Article, missing opera materials, Northeast Wisconsin Music Review (4 October 2004) (pdf)

Feature story, Irish-American News (July 2012) (pdf)

 

Composer’s 1927 Steinway grand piano (now at home of the composer’s granddaughter, Door County, Wisconsin)

View A – side view (lid open)

View B – side view (lid closed)

View C – keyboard view

View D – serial number

Videos

Collins at piano, American Conservatory studio (Chicago, late 1940s) (b&w)

Collins at piano, American Conservatory studio (Chicago, late 1940s) (color)

Collins and colleagues, recital reception, American Conservatory (Chicago, late 1940s)

Collins with family/friends, near home (Door County, Wisconsin, late 1940s)

Collins at Fish Creek harbor (Door County, Wisconsin, late 1940s)

 

Collins
Suite for Violoncello and Piano Mvt. IV. Rondo

 

Walter Preucil, vcl, and William Koehler, pf; Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, 2009)

Mixed Media

Music of
Edward Joseph Collins

CD Anthology Release Celebration Roosevelt University Chicago, 3 April 2012

 

Program Guide

Introduction, by Henry Fogel (audio file)

Comments, by Marin Alsop (audiovideo file)

 
 

Music of Edward Joseph Collins CD Anthology Release Celebration Roosevelt University Chicago, 3 April 2012

From the program, previously unrecorded works for two pianos

Performed by
Winston Choi
and
Kuang-Hao Huang,
pianists

Audio files

Eleanore Waltz

Passacaglia

Cowboy’s Breakdown,

 

Music of Edward Joseph Collins CD Anthology Release Celebration Roosevelt University Chicago, 3 April 2012

From the program, previously unrecorded works for two pianos

Performed by
Winston Choi
and
Kuang-Hao Huang,
pianists

Video files

Eleanore Waltz

Passacaglia

Cowboy’s Breakdown,

 
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