Howard Hanson. Merry Mount. Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. Gerald Schwarz, conductor. Northwest Boychoir. Joseph Crnko, director. Seattle Girls' Choir. Jerome Wright, director. Lauren Flanigan, soprano. Walter MacNeil, tenor. Richard Zeller, baritone. Charles Robert Austin, bass. Louise Marley, mezzo. Two discs. 2006. Naxos American Opera Classics 8.669012-13.

Howard Hanson's Merry Mount, op. 31, his only opera, was commissioned by the metropolitan opera and premiered on February 10, 1934, to both a house and national radio broadcast audience. it received fifty curtain calls that day, a met premiere record that remains to this day, and went on to receive five more performances with three run-outs that season. Tullio Serafin conducted those performances, which featured the baritone Lawrence Tibbett in the leading role of Bradford and Gota Ljungberg as Marigold. The met never revived it.