On March 3, 1979, jazz pianist Dave Burrell performed two sets of music from his opera Windward Passages on solo piano at the Entermedia Theater in New York. The sets were recorded for broadcast on NPR. 

Stephen C. Foster appears to have never competed composing this song. The text on the manuscript was written by his friend George W. Birdseye, and it was used in the song “Down by the Gate,” composed by J. R. Thomas and published in 1863. 

“Deep in a Rose’s Glowing Heart” is the first song in Ethelbert Nevin’s Three Songs, op. 3, published by Boston Music Co. in 1888.

WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

“Dolly Day” was entered for copyright deposit on February 19, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore. The earliest copies state on the title page “as sung by the Christy and Campbell Minstrels and New Orleans Serenaders.” Later copies only listed the Christy Minstrels at Edwin P. Christy’s request.

WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.

“Don’t Bet Your Money on de Shanghai” was submitted for copyright deposit on March 9, 1861. 

“A Dream of My Mother and My Home” was submitted for copyright deposit on April 16, 1862, by Horace Waters of New York.