<Li> In 1971, the composer and pianist Bill Dobbins (who was a Kent State University graduate student at the time of the shootings), composed "The Balcony", an avant - garde work for jazz band inspired by the same event, according to the album's liner notes . </Li> <Li> Dave Brubeck's 1971 cantata Truth Is Fallen was written in response to the slain students at Kent State University and Jackson State University; the work was premiered in Midland, Michigan, on May 1, 1971, and released on LP in 1972 . </Li> <Li> Holly Near's "It Could Have Been Me" was released on A Live Album (1974). The song is Near's personal response to the incident . </Li> <Li> A commemorative 2 - CD compilation featuring music and interviews was released by the May 4 Task Force in May 2005, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the shootings . </Li>

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